what does gentrify mean?
GENTRIFY as VERB
- 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)
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