cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
{f} make general or indefinite statements; form a general principle; conclude, infer; make generally applicable; give a general character to (also generalize)
become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"