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popularize

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popularize in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. 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"
    popularize  popularise  vulgarize  vulgarise  generalize  generalise 
  2. make understandable to the general public
    "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
    popularize  popularise 
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