vulgarize-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: bring into general popular/common use

Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate]|cause] VULGARIZE NP2[theme] NP1[cause] VULGARIZE

Examples:
Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors.
The free use of slang always vulgarizes.
The South Pole has been vulgarized thoroughly, as more and more people are able to travel there.
He vulgarized ritualism in the true sense of the word; he gave it to the common crowd.

Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: vulgarize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: debase and make vulgar

Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent|cause] VULGARIZE NP2[theme]

Examples:
The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage.
The superficial diffusion of knowledge will vulgarize rather than raise the thought of a nation.
She is talked about in a way that is certain to vulgarize her name.
The formal lines of telephone poles and wires have vulgarized our beautiful roads.
Pilgrims have vulgarized the Holy Sepulchre into a Bartholomew Fair.

Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: vulgarize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: act in a vulgar manner

Commentary:
NOTE: only 1 example found. Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate] VULGARIZE

Examples:
The drunkard tends to vulgarize.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: vulgarize.02