barbarize
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
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Verb
[edit]barbarize (third-person singular simple present barbarizes, present participle barbarizing, simple past and past participle barbarized)
- (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
- (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
- 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
- The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
- (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
- [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
- The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cause to become savage
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to become savave
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to adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech
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