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bastardize

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bastardize (bastardizes, present participle bastardizing; past and past participle bastardized)

To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
- , William Blackstone,
  The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.
To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
The simplified word processor is a less-functional, bastardized version of the full program.
- 2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, [https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com.au/&httpsredir=1&article=1077&context=journaloftolkienresearch Article 5],
  The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit.
To beget out of wedlock.

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