VULGARIZING Antonyms

• investing with dignity or honor

• investing with dignity or honor

• tending to exalt

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• serving to purge or rid of sin

• freeing from noxious matter

• acting like an antiseptic

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• foster the growth of

• prepare for crops

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• raise from a lower to a higher position

• raise in rank or condition

• make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing

• make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features

• a worldly-wise person

• make less natural or innocent

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• make more complex or refined

• confer dignity or honor upon

• give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility