Bastardize
to lower in condition or worth; debase:
hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms.
to declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard.
Australian. to harass or humiliate as part of initiation into a college or regiment.
to become debased.
verb (transitive)
to debase; corrupt
(archaic) to declare illegitimate
v.
1610s, “to identify as a bastard,” from bastard (q.v.) + -ize. The figurative sense, “to make degenerate, debase” is earlier (1580s), probably because bastard also was serving as a verb meaning “to declare illegitimate” (1540s). Related: Bastardized; bastardizing; bastardization.
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to lower in condition or worth; debase: hybrid works that neither preserve nor bastardize existing art forms. to declare or prove (someone) to be a bastard. Australian. to harass or humiliate as part of initiation into a college or regiment. to become debased. noun the act of bastardizing (Austral) an initiation ceremony in a school […]
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of no value; worthless. spurious; counterfeit: a bastardly version of a text. bastard; baseborn. vicious or despicable.
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