GENTRIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they gentrify ... he / she / it gentrifies

Past simple: gentrified

Past participle: gentrified

-ing form: gentrifying

Meaning:

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

Example:

gentrify the old center of town

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "gentrify" is one way to...):

freshen up; refurbish; renovate (make brighter and prettier)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

gentrification (the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents))