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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations;
- Example: "gentrify a row of old houses"
- Example: "gentrify the old center of town"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

gentrify
    v 1: renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class
         aspirations; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the
         old center of town"