[ jen-truh-fahy ]
verb
- renovate and improve (a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste.
Examples of gentrify in a sentence:
- I doubt that a couple well-to-do families will be enough to really gentrify that neighborhood.
- The university, which has a huge endowment and owns scores of buildings, has been criticized by some longtime residents as a gentrifying force.
