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Gentrify

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Verb

1. gentrify

renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations

Example Sentences:
'gentrify a row of old houses'
'gentrify the old center of town'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gentrify

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verbWord forms: -fies, -fying or -fied
(transitive)
to make (an area) a more expensive place to live through wealthy people moving into the area and buying the houses where people with less money used to live
The local neighbourhood is gradually being gentrified.

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Gentrify

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈgentriˌfied or ˈgentriˌfying
1. 
to convert (a deteriorated or aging area in a city) into a more affluent middle-class neighborhood, as by remodeling dwellings, resulting in increased property values and in displacement of the poor
2. 
to raise to a higher status or condition; improve, uplift, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gentrify

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v. gen·tri·fied, gen·tri·fy·ing, gen·tri·fies
v.tr.
To subject to gentrification: gentrify a row of Victorian houses.
v.intr.
To undergo gentrification: a neighborhood that is rapidly gentrifying.

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