Dastardized vs Bastardized - What's the difference?
dastardized | bastardized |
(dastardize)
To make cowardly; to intimidate or dispirit.
(bastardize)
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 dastardized and bastardized
is that dastardized is past tense of dastardize while bastardized is past tense of bastardize.dastardized
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Verb
(head)dastardize
English
Verb
(dastardiz)- to dastardize my courage
- (Dryden)
bastardized
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Verb
(head)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)