abastardize
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- abastardise (UK)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle French abastardir, from Old French a- + bastart (“bastard”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /eɪˈbæs.tɚˌdaɪz/
Verb
[edit]abastardize (third-person singular simple present abastardizes, present participle abastardizing, simple past and past participle abastardized)
- (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase. [Attested from the late 16th century until the late 17th century.][1]
Translations
[edit]to render bastard
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References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abastardize”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.