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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pop·u·lar·ize /ˈpɑpjələˌraɪz/
 (vt.)使成通俗性,使平易,使普及(vi.)通俗化

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pop·u·lar·ize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Popularized p. pr. & vb. n. Popularizing ]  To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. “The popularizing of religious teaching.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 popularize
      v 1: 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" [syn: popularise,
            vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise]
      2: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan
         popularized cosmology in his books" [syn: popularise]