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barbarity |
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| barbarossa
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barbarize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb barbarize has 2 senses
- barbarize(v = verb.change) barbarise - become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language; Array is one way to change
- 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
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
Derived form noun barbarization1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
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."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
barbarize, v.tr. & intr. (also -ise) make or become barbarous.
Derivative
barbarization n.
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