Open English Wordnet
Verbs
(v)popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalisecater 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”
(v)popularize, popularisemake understandable to the general public“Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books”