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BARBARIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barbarize mean?
• BARBARIZE (verb)
The verb BARBARIZE has 2 senses:
1. become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
2. make crude or savage in behavior or speech
Familiarity information: BARBARIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
barbarise; barbarize
Hypernyms (to "barbarize" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
barbarise; barbarize (make crude or savage in behavior or speech)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make crude or savage in behavior or speech
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
barbarise; barbarize
Context example:
his years in prison have barbarized the young man
Hypernyms (to "barbarize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Verb group:
barbarise; barbarize (become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
barbarization (an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized)
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