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bastardize
  1. To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.
  2. To introduce debased elements into.
  3. To beget out of wedlock.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “This is what separates Wolf from a pack of publications that demand perfectly manicured and manipulated images that bastardize reality.”
      “The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.”
      “All these great men use what comes to them from the Other to modify the Self, to bastardize it, for genius wants bastardy.”
abastardize
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase. [Attested from the late 16th century until the late 17th century.]
abastardise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of abastardize.
abastard
  1. To abastardize. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]
abastardising
  1. present participle of abastardise
bastardise
  1. Alternative spelling of bastardize
  2. Examples:
    1. “To bastardise Ginsberg entirely: I have seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by the furious fight over gender politics.”
      “For Crongton I had to invent motifs of speech and bastardise words.”
      “This gives licence to bastardise and also allows a sense of originality.”
bastard
  1. (obsolete) To bastardize.
abastardises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abastardise
abastardizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abastardize
bastardises
bastardizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastardize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I don't like the term because in many ways it bastardizes some of the great traditions.”
      “On the other hand, this trend bastardizes the more common, everyday uses of a pitch.”
abastards
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abastard
abastardised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abastardise
abastardized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abastardize
bastardised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bastardise
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Their manager then bastardised their songs and tweaked them to make them top 40 friendly.”
      “The shape of the great tales, so often bastardised and bowdlerised, is lost without the fine-weave and fibre of the prose itself.”
      “Rumours have swirled that the financiers will release it in a bastardised version later this year.”
bastardized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bastardize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But over the years, this was bastardized to suit successive tenants, who used it as a theater, art-film house and commercial cinema.”
      “I had every intention of giving it to that son of mine until he got himself bastardized.”
      “All this over some bastardized rock-electronica, the sound of someone trying desperately to be contemporary.”
abastarded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abastard
bastarded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bastard
abastardizing
  1. present participle of abastardize
bastardising
bastardizing
  1. present participle of bastardize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One key issue was the risk of screen scrapers and spammers bastardizing content for search engine optimization.”
      “The following month, Mary's first Parliament acknowledged the validity of Catherine of Aragon's marriage, by implication bastardizing Elizabeth once more.”
      “He had that marriage annulled, bastardizing Mary in the process.”
abastarding
  1. present participle of abastard
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