Synonyms of the word

vulgarize

• v. To express or re-express something in a base, common, or lewd manner; to make something commonplace; to…

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

behave

• v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
• v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

broadcast

• adj. cast or scattered widely, in all directions.
• adj. transmitted, signalled, or communicated via radio waves or electronic means.
• adj. relating to transmissions of messages or signals via radio waves or electronic means.
• n. A transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver.
• n. A programme (show, bulletin, documentary, and so on) so transmitted.
• n. (dated) The act of scattering seed.
• v. To transmit a message or signal via radio waves or electronic means.
• v. To transmit a message over a wide area.
• v. To appear as speaker, presenter or performer in a broadcast program.
• v. (archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.
• v. To send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

circularise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of circularize.

circularize

• v. (intransitive) To publicize something by publishing and distributing circulars.
• v. (transitive) To distribute a circular or circulars to.
• v. To canvass opinion by using a questionnaire.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) circular in shape.

circulate

• v. (intransitive) to move in circles or through a circuit.
• v. (transitive) to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit.
• v. to move from person to person, as at a party.
• v. to spread or disseminate.
• v. to become widely known.

diffuse

• v. (transitive) To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or…
• v. (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion…
• adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

disseminate

• v. (transitive) To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc for growth and propagation, like seeds.
• v. (intransitive) To become widespread.

distribute

• v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
• v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
• v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
• v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
• v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
• v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
• v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
• v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
• v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

generalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of generalize.

generalize

• v. To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
• v. To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
• v. To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
• v. To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

popularise

• v. (transitive) To make something popular.
• v. (transitive) To present something in a widely understandable or acceptable form, especially technical…

popularize

• v. (American) Alternative spelling of popularise.

propagate

• v. (transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
• v. (transitive) To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space.
• v. (transitive) To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To multiply; to increase.
• v. (transitive) To generate; to produce.
• v. (biology, intransitive) To produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots…
• v. (intransitive, computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
• v. (transitive, computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

vulgarise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarize.