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English verb: popularise | |||
| 1. | popularise (communication) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | ||
| Samples | They popularized coffee in Washington State. Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors. | ||
| Synonyms | generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread | ||
| Verb group | popularise, popularize | ||
| 2. | popularise (change) make understandable to the general public | ||
| Samples | Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books. | ||
| Synonyms | popularize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | gear, pitch | ||
| Verb group | generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize | ||
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