popularize

popularize
Synonyms and related words:
account for, allegorize, clarify, clear up, coarsen, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, get across, get over, give reason for, give the meaning, illuminate, illustrate, make clear, make it clear, make plain, put across, put over, rationalize, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, throw light upon, unfold, unlock, unravel, vulgarize

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  • Popularize — Pop u*lar*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Popularized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Popularizing}.] [Cf. F. populariser.] To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. The popularizing …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • popularize — index elucidate, explain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • popularize — to make a complex topic intelligible to the people, 1833, from POPULAR (Cf. popular) + IZE (Cf. ize). Related: Popularized; popularizing …   Etymology dictionary

  • popularize — (Amer.) pop·u·lar·ize || pÉ‘pjÉ™lÉ™raɪz / pÉ’pjÊŠl v. make popular; simplify, remove unnecessary details; explain in a manner suited to the general public (also popularise) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • popularize — [v] make widely popular, accessible catch on, disseminate, familiarize, generalize, give currency, make available, promote, restore, resurrect, revive, simplify, spread, universalize; concepts 324,384 Ant. discredit, shun …   New thesaurus

  • popularize — (also popularise) ► VERB 1) make popular. 2) make (something scientific or academic) accessible or interesting to the general public. DERIVATIVES popularization noun popularizer noun …   English terms dictionary

  • popularize — [päp′yə lə rīz΄] vt. popularized, popularizing to make popular; specif., a) to cause to be liked by many people b) to make understandable to the general public popularization n. popularizer n …   English World dictionary

  • popularize — [[t]pɒ̱pjʊləraɪz[/t]] popularizes, popularizing, popularized (in BRIT, also use popularise) 1) VERB To popularize something means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it. [V n] Irving Brokaw, who had studied figure skating… …   English dictionary

  • popularize — UK [ˈpɒpjʊləraɪz] / US [ˈpɑpjələˌraɪz] verb [transitive] Word forms popularize : present tense I/you/we/they popularize he/she/it popularizes present participle popularizing past tense popularized past participle popularized 1) to make something… …   English dictionary

  • popularize — popularization, n. popularizer, n. /pop yeuh leuh ruyz /, v.t., popularized, popularizing. to make popular: to popularize a dance. Also, esp. Brit., popularise. [1585 95; POPULAR + IZE] * * * …   Universalium

  • popularize — verb Popularize is used with these nouns as the object: ↑concept …   Collocations dictionary

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