Gentrify [verb]

Definition of Gentrify:

start over; refurbish

Opposite/Antonyms of Gentrify:

● Discourage

● Depress

● Leave alone

● Kill

● Hurt

● Break

● Stop

● Halt

● Finish

● Ruin

● Damage

● Shorten

● Destroy


Sentence/Example of Gentrify:

New restaurant owners entering gentrifying areas are sometimes people of color themselves, but this doesn’t mean that they can’t be gentrifiers, Sbicca says.

“This won’t reach low-income people, but it will reach middle-income people and that benefits gentrifying areas,” he said.