To make something or someone bourgeois; to give middle-class characteristics or values to something.
From 'bourgeois' plus the suffix '-ify' meaning 'to make.' This follows the productive English pattern of creating verbs from adjectives.
This verb perfectly captures something Karl Marx noticed—that capitalism and industrialization were 'bourgeoisifying' traditional communities, spreading middle-class values and market-thinking everywhere!
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