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barbarize en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
  2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
    • The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
  3. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
    • The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
barbarized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
barbarized Tense=Past lexicographic
barbarizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
barbarizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

unbarbarize · debarbarize · barbarization · rebarbarize

Translations (10)

sk barbarizovať (to cause to become savage) · pl barbaryzować się (to adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech) · pl barbaryzować się (to become savave) · pl barbaryzować (to cause to become savage) · it barbarizzare (to cause to become savage) · sv förvilda (to cause to become savage) · sv barbarisera (to cause to become savage) · es barbarizar (to cause to become savage) · la effero (to cause to become savage) · pl zbarbaryzować (to cause to become savage)