gentrify
Verb
Meaning
renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
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Examples
I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
gentrify a row of old houses
gentrify the old center of town
“When I heard about him, I had a moment of ‘Oh, my God, they’re gonna gentrify my island,’ ” confides Nancy Santiago Negrón, a vice president at Hispanics in Philanthropy.
There were much smaller concentrations of arts establishments in both gentrifying areas and those with the potential to gentrify.