Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb gentrify

1 sense of gentrify

Sense 1
gentrify -- (renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town")
       => refurbish, renovate, freshen up -- (make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate")