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Verb: popularise  'pó-pyu-lu,rIz
Usage: Brit (N. Amer: popularize)
  1. Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
    "They popularised coffee in Washington State";
    - popularize, vulgarize, vulgarise [Brit]
     
  2. Make understandable to the general public
    "Carl Sagan popularised cosmology in his books";
    - popularize

Derived forms: popularises, popularising, popularised

Type of: broadcast, circularise [Brit], circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, gear, pass around, pitch, propagate, spread

Encyclopedia: Popularise