English

Verb

de-bourgeoisify ‎(third-person singular simple present de-bourgeoisifies, present participle de-bourgeoisifying, simple past and past participle de-bourgeoisified)

1. To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)
   • 2003, Bruce Boehrer, "The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre" in Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (eds.), A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays, Malden, MA: Blackwell, p. 70,

     To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.

   • 2008, Charles Rutheiser, "Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City" in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (eds.), A Companion to the City, Malden, MA: Blackwell, p. 228,

     Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" […] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces.

Antonyms

• bourgeoisify