Definitions for: Barbarize


[v] make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"
[v] become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language



Webster (1913) Definition: Bar"ba*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing.]
1. To become barbarous.

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

2. 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. --Milton.


Bar"ba*rize, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL.
barbarizare.]
To make barbarous.

The hideous changes which have barbarized France.
--Burke.

Synonyms: barbarise

See Also: alter, change

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