Bastardizes vs Dastardizes - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between bastardizes and dastardizes

is that bastardizes is third-person singular of bastardize while dastardizes is third-person singular of dastardize.

(head)

(bastardize)

*bastardise

(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)

*(introduce debased elements into) mongrelize

(head)

(dastardize)

(dastardiz)

To make cowardly; to intimidate or dispirit.

to dastardize my courage

(Dryden)

(Webster 1913)