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barbarize

[ bahr-buh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

barbarized, barbarizing.
  1. to make barbarous; brutalize; corrupt:

    foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language.



verb (used without object)

barbarized, barbarizing.
  1. to become barbarous; lapse into barbarism.
  2. to use barbarisms in speaking or writing.

barbarize

/ ˈɑːəˌɪ /

verb

  1. to make or become barbarous
  2. to use barbarisms in (language)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • b··tDz noun
  • ·b· verb (used with object) debarbarized debarbarizing
  • ܲ·b· verb (used with object) unbarbarized unbarbarizing
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of barbarize1

1635–45; partly < Greek í𾱲, equivalent to á ( os ) barbarian + -izein -ize; partly barbar(ous) + -ize
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Example Sentences

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The group is the latest evidence of a near-universal human capacity to barbarize those seen as “others,” as nonbelievers, and treat them as a different form of life.

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The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.

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Not knowing what to do with the flower border, we barbarized instead of cultivating it.

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For all these ages the African borders have known war and war only, and of the most destructive and barbarizing nature.

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God, acting always through Nature, always by universal and self-evident laws, would not permit a thousand sects of ignorant, profane, impious, blaspheming Priests, to mislead, impoverish, and barbarize the people.

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