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barbarize

Verb (usu participle)

bar=ba=rize

WORDNET DICTIONARY

barbarize(v = verb.change) barbarise - become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language; Array

is one way to change

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

barbarize(v = verb.change) barbarise - make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Derived form noun barbarization₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

barbarize, v. i.

To become barbarous. [1913 Webster]
"The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan." [1913 Webster]
To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. [1913 Webster]
"The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms." [1913 Webster]

barbarize, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.].

To make barbarous. [1913 Webster]

"The hideous changes which have barbarized France." [1913 Webster]

barbarize, v.tr. & intr. (also -ise) make or become barbarous.

Derivative

barbarization n.

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