gentrify
🇺🇸
/ˈdʒentrɪfaɪ/
🇬🇧
/ˈdʒentrɪfaɪ/
verb
R
Make an area nicer so that richer people want to live there.
The neighborhood started to gentrify when new cafes and boutiques opened up.
當新咖啡館和小商店開張時，這個社區開始變得高檔化。
R
Make someone's behavior or lifestyle more refined or acceptable to higher social classes.
He tried to gentrify his image by wearing suits and attending charity events.
他試圖通過穿西裝和參加慈善活動來提升自己的形象。
translation
高檔化, 雅化
詞形變化
3rd Present
gentrifies
Past
gentrified
Perfect
gentrified
Progressive
gentrifying