verb
- to cause to become mixed in breed, race, or origin; to make mongrel
Usage: often considered offensive when applied to people
Examples
- The breeder was careful not to mongrelize the purebred line.
- Critics argued that the policy would mongrelize the traditional culture.
- Some farmers deliberately mongrelize their crops to increase hardiness.
- The term is considered offensive when used to describe human populations.
- Plant breeders sometimes mongrelize varieties to create new strains.
- The invasion threatened to mongrelize the native species.