pablumize means to reduce or render (something) into pablum. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
Why “pablumize” is a great word
PABLUMIZE — [Verb] To reduce complex or challenging material into something blandly simplistic and intellectually unstimulating. From Pablum (a proprietary name for a bland, soft cereal for infants, metaphorically extended to mean simplistic or bland material) + -ize (a verb-forming suffix meaning 'to make' or 'to render'). Unlike 'simplify' (which can be a neutral, even clarifying act) or 'bowdlerize' (which censors for propriety), to pablumize is to homogenize for palatability, draining vitality and nuance. It is the committee-driven rewrite that sands every rough edge from a novel, the textbook that turns a revolution into a list of dates, the speech where every potent truth is swapped for a digestible platitude—a quiet victory of safety over substance, where the goal is not nourishment but the absence of any possibility of choking.
Etymology
From pablum + -ize.
verb
- To reduce or render (something) into pablum.