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1. Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
   "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors";
   - popularize, popularise [Brit], vulgarise [Brit], generalize, generalise [Brit]
    
2. Debase and make vulgar
   "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage";
   - vulgarise [Brit]
    
3. Act in a vulgar manner
   "The drunkard tends to vulgarize";
   - vulgarise [Brit]

Derived forms: vulgarizing, vulgarizes, vulgarized

Type of: act, alter, behave, broadcast, change, circularise [Brit], circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, do, modify, pass around, propagate, spread