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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Barbarize \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser LL barbarizare.] To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. --Burke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: barbarize v : make barbarous [syn: {barbarise}]
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