barbarize

barbarize

English

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/

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Verb

barbarize (third-person singular simple present barbarizes, present participle barbarizing, simple past and past participle barbarized)

1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
   • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, Philosophy of Roman History (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

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

3. (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 946735316:

     The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.

Translations

to cause to become savage

Italian: barbarizzare (it) Latin: effero (la) Polish: barbaryzować impf, zbarbaryzować pf Slovak: barbarizovať Spanish: barbarizar (es) Swedish: förvilda, barbarisera

to become savave

Polish: barbaryzować się impf

to adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech

Polish: barbaryzować się impf