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popularize

 
Verb popularize has 2 senses
  1. 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"
    --1 is one way to circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
    Derived forms: noun popularization2, noun popularizer1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. popularize, popularise - make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
    --2 is one way to gear, pitch
    Derived form: noun popularization1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
popularise populariser popularism popularity popularity antonym popularity contest popularity synonym popularization popularize popularized popularizer popularly popularness populars populate populated populated area

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