Definition of barbarize in English:
barbarize
(British barbarise)
verb ˈbɑːbərʌɪzˈbɑrbəˌraɪz
[with object]usually as adjective barbarizingCause to become savage or uncultured.
the barbarizing effect of four decades of rock 'n' roll
Example sentencesExamples
- Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
- It proposes a barbarising of the inside of a language (thus culture) such as is unavoidable for those coming to a culture from its outside.
- The army itself was barbarized and turned into an instrument of sheer oppression.
- Kirkeby evidently was not above barbarizing them with crude strokes and muddy patches of overpainting when they threatened to become too accessible.
- Other races were infantilised or barbarised, or held up as object lessons in the perils of racial degeneration.
Derivatives
noun bɑːbərʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
We can observe a barbarization on the part of the Palestinians, in the form of suicide bombers, forcing the IDF's response to become barbaric as well, such as in the assault on the Jenin Refugee Camp.
Example sentencesExamples
- Is it too much to suggest that the tough line policies of the last decade have led to a criminalisation or barbarisation of parts of the ‘legitimate’ economy?’
- The fall of the Roman empire did not put an end to viticulture in Italy, but barbarization and economic collapse meant the disappearance of the market for fine wines.
- The army identified wholeheartedly with the war against Bolshevism on the eastern front, and was deeply implicated in the atrocities to which the front's barbarization gave rise.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'speak using barbarisms'): from late Latin barbarizare, from Greek barbarizein 'speak like a foreigner'.
Definition of barbarize in US English:
barbarize
(British barbarise)
verbˈbɑrbəˌraɪzˈbärbəˌrīz
[with object]usually as adjective barbarizingCause to become savage or uncultured.
the barbarizing effect of four decades of rock 'n' roll
Example sentencesExamples
- It proposes a barbarising of the inside of a language (thus culture) such as is unavoidable for those coming to a culture from its outside.
- The army itself was barbarized and turned into an instrument of sheer oppression.
- Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
- Other races were infantilised or barbarised, or held up as object lessons in the perils of racial degeneration.
- Kirkeby evidently was not above barbarizing them with crude strokes and muddy patches of overpainting when they threatened to become too accessible.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘speak using barbarisms’): from late Latin barbarizare, from Greek barbarizein ‘speak like a foreigner’.