GENTRIFY as VERB

  1. Meaning
    • renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
    Usage Example(s)
    • gentrify a row of old houses
    • gentrify the old center of town
    Hypernyms(s) gentrify is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Derived(s)