About The Word Bastardize
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Bastardize
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What's The Definition Of Bastardize?
[v] declare a child to be illegitimate
[v] change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms Synonyms | Synonyms for Bastardize: bastardise | bastardise Related Terms | Find terms related to Bastardize: adulterate | brutalize | contaminate | corrupt | cut | debase | debauch | demoralize | denaturalize | denature | deprave | dilute | doctor | doctor up | fortify | lace | pervert | pollute | spike | tamper with | vitiate | warp | water | water down See Also | adjudge | corrupt | debase | debauch | declare | demoralise | demoralize | deprave | hold | misdirect | pervert | profane | subvert | vitiate Bastardize In Webster's Dictionary \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bastardized}
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bastardizing}.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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