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de-bourgeoisify en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + bourgeoisify.

Meanings

  1. To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)
    • To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral. 2003, Bruce Boehrer, “The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre”, in Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, editors, A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays, Malden, MA: Blackwell, page 70:
    • Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" […] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces. 2008, Charles Rutheiser, “Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City”, in Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson, editors, A Companion to the City, Malden, MA: Blackwell, page 228:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
de-bourgeoisifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
de-bourgeoisifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
de-bourgeoisified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
de-bourgeoisified Tense=Past lexicographic

Antonyms

bourgeoisify

Translations (2)

pt desaburguesar (to remove the bourgeois characteristics from) · pt desburguesar (to remove the bourgeois characteristics from)