De-bourgeoisify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: De-bourgeoisify is a verb meaning To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something).
Meaning
To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something).
Example Sentences
To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.
Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" […] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces.
Word Forms
- de-bourgeoisifies
- de-bourgeoisifying
- de-bourgeoisified
Antonyms for de-bourgeoisify
Common opposites include bourgeoisify.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include debarbarize, bastardize, declassicize, deurbanize, deindividualise, deculturize.
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