Meaning : Cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public. Bring into general or common use.
Example :
They popularized coffee in Washington State.
Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors.
Synonyms : generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize
Meaning : Make understandable to the general public.
Example :
Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books.
Synonyms : popularise