barbarize
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
barbarize (barbarizes, present participle barbarizing; past and past participle barbarized)
- (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
- (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
- 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: Printed for Thomas Underhill and/or for Thomas Johnson], OCLC 946735316 ↗:
- The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
- Italian: barbarizzare
- Spanish: barbarizar
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