Dastardize vs Bastardize - What's the difference?
dastardize | bastardize |
To make cowardly; to intimidate or dispirit.
To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.
To introduce debased elements into.
To beget out of wedlock.
As verbs the difference between dastardize and bastardize
is that dastardize is to make cowardly; to intimidate or dispirit while bastardize is to claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.dastardize
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Verb
(dastardiz)- to dastardize my courage
- (Dryden)
bastardize
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Alternative forms
*bastardiseVerb
(bastardiz)- The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. — Blackstone.
- (Shakespeare)
