bar·ba·rize /ˈbɑrbəˌraɪz/
(vt.)(vi.)野蠻(化)
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.
Bar·ba·rize v. t. To make barbarous.
The hideous changes which have barbarized France. --Burke.
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barbarize
v 1: become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
[syn: barbarise]
2: make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in
prison have barbarized the young man" [syn: barbarise]