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noun
The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
an act that debases or corrupts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bastardisation
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Broader terms: degradation, debasement
noun
declaring or rendering bastard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: declaration
History
From bastard + -ization.
Across languages
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