bastardize
中文解釋
wordnet sense
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bastardises, 3rd person singular present; bastardised, past tense; bastardised, past participle; bastardizing, present participle; bastardising, present participle; bastardized, past tense; bastardized, past participle; bastardizes, 3rd person singular present;
/ˈbastərˌdīz/,
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bastardises, 3rd person singular present; bastardised, past tense; bastardised, past participle; bastardizing, present participle; bastardising, present participle; bastardized, past tense; bastardized, past participle; bastardizes, 3rd person singular present;
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Corrupt or debase (something such as a language or art form), typically by adding new elements
- - a strange, bastardized form of French
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Declare (someone) illegitimate
- - to annul the marriage and bastardize the child
Web Definitions:
- 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