Usually means: Alter something, losing purity, integrity.
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  1. bastardise: Merriam-Webster
  2. bastardise: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. bastardise: Wordnik
  5. bastardise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bastardise: Wiktionary
  7. bastardise: Dictionary.com
  8. bastardise: Rhymezone
  9. bastardise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. bastardise: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. bastardise: Legal dictionary

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  1. Bastardise: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bastardise)

▸ verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of bastardize. [To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.]

Similar:
bastardize, demonise, masculise, demoralise, desemantise, sodomize, dehumanise, delexicalise, overspecialise, overemphasise, more...

Opposite:
legitimize, validate, legitimise, legitimation

Types:
to adulterate, to debase, to pervert, to prostitute, to corrupt, to vitiate, to defile, more...

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Similar:
bastardize, demonise, masculise, demoralise, desemantise, sodomize, dehumanise, delexicalise, overspecialise, overemphasise, more...

Opposite:
legitimize, validate, legitimise, legitimation

Types:
to adulterate, to debase, to pervert, to prostitute, to corrupt, to vitiate, to defile, more...



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