Definition of "banalize" []

• To make something banal or commonplace. (verb)

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• "Of course, as with all truly interesting phenomena, pundits now are trying to banalize the scandal by reducing it to one man, one company, one hobby- horse."
• "And should we allow these doctored, computerized images of the Holocaust to banalize the most horrible, incomparable event of human History?"
• "In spite of all our usual concepts and labels, the generalities through which we banalize the world into items of mere utility, we are suddenly forced to perceive an ordinary thing in an entirely unique fashion."