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Pronunciation : Bar"ba*rize
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized (; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing (.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bar"ba*rize
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.]
Definition : Defn: To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913