bastardization

Meanings

Plural: bastardizations

Noun

• declaring or rendering bastard
  • "the annulment of their marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children"
• an act that debases or corrupts
• The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
• The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
• The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
• Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
• The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
• Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.

Synonyms

bastardisation

Related Words

bastard, bastardise, bastardised, bastardize, bastardized