Bastardize

Quick meaning: Bastardize is a verb meaning To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.

Meaning

To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.

More Meanings

1. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
2. To beget out of wedlock.

Example Sentences

The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program.

I should / have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the / firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.

The case of a king who falsely charges his wife with adultery, seeks to execute her, and bastardizes his daughter resonates strongly with the plot of The Winter's Tale, and in fact suggests a reading of the play as an allegory of Anne's downfall and Elizabeth's bastardization, seventy-five years after the fact.

Word Forms

• bastardizes
• bastardizing
• bastardized
• bastardise

Synonyms for bastardize

Depending on context, synonyms include butcher, debase, mongrelize, sophisticate, abase, adulter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bastardise, illegitimatize, embastardize, imbastardize, illegitimate, illegitimize.

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