depopularize, v.
(dɪˈpɒpjʊləraɪz)
[f. de- II. 1 + popularize v.]
trans. To deprive of popularity, render unpopular.
| 1834 Blackw. Mag. XXXVI. 227 Not to depopularize a new-born power endeavouring to strengthen itself. 1849 Grote Greece ii. lxxii. (1862) VI. 365 But Sparta had not yet become depopularized. 1883 Daily News 3 July 5/7 There is nothing that tends so much to depopularise a Minister. |