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Bastardized vs Abastardized - What's the difference?

bastardized | abastardized |

As verbs the difference between bastardized and abastardized

is that bastardized is past tense of bastardize while abastardized is past tense of abastardize.

bastardized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bastardize)

  • bastardize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *bastardise

    Verb

    (bastardiz)
  • To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
  • The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. — Blackstone.
  • To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.
  • To introduce debased elements into.
  • To beget out of wedlock.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    *(introduce debased elements into) mongrelize

    abastardized

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abastardize)

  • abastardize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * abastardise (UK)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase.
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