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barbarize

/bahr-buh-rahyz/US // ˈbɑr bəˌraɪz //UK // (ˈbɑːbəˌraɪz) //

蛮夷化,蛮荒化,蛮荒,蛮荒之地

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bar·ba·rized, bar·ba·riz·ing.

    • : to make barbarous; brutalize; corrupt: foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    bar·ba·rized, bar·ba·riz·ing.

    • : to become barbarous; lapse into barbarism.
    • : to use barbarisms in speaking or writing.

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Examples

  • If the most effectual method of degrading woman be to barbarize man, the certain means of dignifying her is to christianize him.

  • In this age, poverty tends to barbarize men; it shuts them out from the educational influences of our times.

  • This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences.

  • He never had a family to de-barbarize, even though he did write very pretty books about 93 the subject.