popularize

(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use. Synonyms: popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise. Examples: "They popularized coffee in washington state." "Relativity theory was vulgarized by these authors."

(verb) make understandable to the general public. Synonyms: popularise. Example: "Carl sagan popularized cosmology in his books."