Barbarize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Barbarize	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Barbarize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
barbarize v become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language Synonym(s): barbarize, barbarise make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man" Synonym(s): barbarize, barbarise
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 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.