bastardized

verb

Definition of bastardizednext
past tense of bastardize
as in degraded
to lower in character, dignity, or quality bastardize the art form by adapting it to popular taste

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Recent Examples of bastardized But, like all good things, it has been bastardized to the point of not being worth your time. — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026 Our ideals have been bastardized. — William Mersey, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026 Short’s personality and complexity, attributes long discarded as her life became bastardized, stand in stark contrast to the inhumanity of her death. — Nathan Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026 The events meant to bring us together, like the Super Bowl or March Madness, have been bastardized into vehicles for ruinous addiction. — MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bastardized
  1. degraded
  2. corrupted
  3. perverted
  4. subverted
  5. weakened
  6. diluted
  7. poisoned
  8. deteriorated
Verb
  • The filing argued the sequence of testing was critical because Othram's single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNP, testing requires DNA that has not already been depleted or degraded through prior analysis.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
  • Global conflict has already degraded the collaborative atmosphere at CERN, Llewellyn Smith said.
    — Lisa Song, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Definition of degraded
Verb
  • Most of the other relationships in the movie are hopelessly corrupted or poisoned in some way, as Letty moves between an unloving mother and a vengeful former lover, and others whose closeness is a weapon to be feared.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 28 July 2026
  • The unsightly mushroom could have corrupted her maids’ morals, or even their health.
    — Leah Hudson, Popular Science, 9 July 2026
Definition of corrupted
Verb
  • More important to Bernstein is what that lust reveals about her characters’ deepest needs, specifically how their need to care and be cared for can be as easily perverted as any other form of desire.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
  • Georgia Bernstein’s unsettling directorial debut focuses on how warped and perverted those desires become when they’re taken to their insatiable extremes.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
Definition of perverted
Verb
  • What could be a stock campus ice-queen role is subverted throughout the season, through the empathy for the character that courses through her performance.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 July 2026
  • Ireland sought to slow down the match but New Zealand subverted that tactic, forcing turnovers and kicking only sparingly.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
Definition of subverted
Verb
  • Burger’s appointment, therefore, was concerning to criminal defense attorneys and civil rights activists, who feared that the Warren Court’s landmark decisions would be weakened or overturned.
    — Quinn Yeargain, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Business in the greater Tokyo area was almost back to normal Wednesday after a tropical storm weakened to a depression and left Japan, with transportation operating normally and power restored to most homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of weakened
Verb
  • The lawsuit alleged that Keller’s at-large voting system diluted minority votes in school board elections.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Aug. 2026
  • These factors raise the odds that the current push will be slowed, diluted, or forced into hybrid language.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of diluted
Verb
  • One of the children suffered fatal sharp-force injuries, while investigators believe the other three children were poisoned.
    — Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Kenya has previously recorded incidents of elephants being poisoned as a result of poaching and human-wildlife conflict.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Definition of poisoned
Verb
  • The business has not deteriorated by 43% in a matter of weeks.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Her vision deteriorated, at times disappearing completely, while neurological symptoms led to seizure-like episodes and stroke-like symptoms.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of deteriorated

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