1. (verb)popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
2. (verb)vulgarise, vulgarize debase and make vulgar "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
3. (verb)vulgarize, vulgarise act in a vulgar manner "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"