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1. Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
   "They vulgarised coffee in Washington State"
   - popularize, popularise [Brit], vulgarize, generalize, generalise [Brit]
    
2. Debase and make vulgar
   "The Press has vulgarised Love and Marriage"
   - vulgarize
    
3. Act in a vulgar manner
   "The drunkard tends to vulgarise"
   - vulgarize

Derived forms: vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarising

See also: vulgarisation [Brit], vulgariser [Brit]

Type of: act, alter, behave, broadcast, change, circularise [Brit], circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, do, modify, pass around, propagate, spread