barbarize

[ bahr-buh-rahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, bar·ba·rized, bar·ba·riz·ing.

to make barbarous; brutalize; corrupt:
foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language.

, bar·ba·rized, bar·ba·riz·ing.

barbarize

/ ˈbɑːbəˌraɪz /

1635–45; partly < Greek barbarízein, equivalent to bárbar ( os ) barbarian + -izein -ize; partly barbar(ous) + -ize

If the most effectual method of degrading woman be to barbarize man, the certain means of dignifying her is to christianize him.

In this age, poverty tends to barbarize men; it shuts them out from the educational influences of our times.

This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences.

He never had a family to de-barbarize, even though he did write very pretty books about 93 the subject.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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