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How to pronounce bastardize in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bastardise
Type of vitiate, corrupt, debase, debauch, pervert, profane, subvert, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect
Derivation bastard, bastardization
Type Words
Synonyms bastardise
Type of declare, adjudge, hold
Derivation bastard, bastardization

Examples of bastardize

bastardize
They bastardize science for profit and damage innocent people in the process.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Did you guys even invent English or just bastardize it from Latin and German?
From the olympics.time.com
If they're going to bastardize baseball, why not just ruin it?
From the ocregister.com
So I thought I'd give you my take on popular Belgian-imported foods that American's bastardize.
From the edeneatseverything.com
Its funny how Americans like to bastardize everything.
From the edeneatseverything.com
Twitter has risen to popularity by allowing scores of other companies to play with, even bastardize, its name and system.
From the businessweek.com
You and your irresponsible cohorts want to bastardize it into a miscegenationist grayness that will lead it to an inescapable decline.
From the time.com
More examples
  • Change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms
  • Declare a child to be illegitimate
  • (bastardized) deriving from more than one source or style
  • (bastardization) declaring or rendering bastard; "the annulment of their marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children"
  • (bastardization) an act that debases or corrupts
  • (Bastardized) Corruption or bastardisation is a way of referring to certain changes in a language and their prescriptive evaluation. ...
  • To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard; To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase; To introduce debased elements into
  • (bastardization) A degradation of a language caused by the passage of time or geographical remoteness