1. (

• popularize ,
• popularise ,
• vulgarize ,
• vulgarise ,
• generalize ,
• generalise ,

) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors" ;

2. (

• popularize ,
• popularise

) make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" ;