Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To cause to become savage or uncultured.

    become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language

  2. (intransitive)To become savage or uncultured.

  3. (intransitive)To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

Translations

3 languages

Forms

barbarizes, barbarizing, barbarized, barbarized
Base formbarbarize · to barbarize
3rd person singularbarbarizes
Present participlebarbarizing
Past simplebarbarized
Past participlebarbarized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybarbarize
he, she, itbarbarizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsbarbarized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave barbarized
he, she, ithas barbarized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill barbarize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make crude or savage in behavior or speech:barbarise
  • become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language:barbarise

Word family

4 related words
Relatedbarbarization
Deriveddebarbarizerebarbarizeunbarbarize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
barbarianbarbaricbarbarismbarbarousbarbarybarbecueA2
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