gentrify
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editgentrify (third-person singular simple present gentrifies, present participle gentrifying, simple past and past participle gentrified)
- (transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
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editto renovate something, especially housing to make more appealing to the middle classes
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