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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v.有主动词 verb
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bar·ba·rized, bar·ba·riz·ing.
- : to make barbarous; brutalize; corrupt: foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language.
v.无主动词 verb
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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.
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