gentrify

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verb

renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
- gentrify a row of old houses
- gentrify the old center of town
• Derivationally related forms:
gentrification
• Hypernyms:
refurbish, renovate, freshen up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something