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Regentrify vs. Gentrify: What's the Difference?

Regentrify and Gentrify Definitions

Regentrify

To gentrify again.

Gentrify

To subject to gentrification
Gentrify a row of Victorian houses.

Gentrify

To undergo gentrification
A neighborhood that is rapidly gentrifying.

Gentrify

(transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).

Gentrify

Renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations;
Gentrify a row of old houses
Gentrify the old center of town
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