Bastardize: alternatives and connections

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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To make clear; to free from obscurity.

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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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To turnanother way; to divert.

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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