popularize, v.
(popularized, popularizes, popularizing)
(popularized, popularizes, popularizing)
make understandable to the general public
<verb.change>
popularise popularize
sample sentences
"Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"verb frames
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cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
<verb.communication>
generalise generalize popularise popularize vulgarise vulgarize
sample sentences
"They popularized coffee in Washington State""Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
verb frames
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lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
verb group
hypernym