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barbarizes

barbarizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of barbarize.

Meaning of barbarize

Verb

barbarize (third-person singular simple present barbarizes, present participle barbarizing, simple past and past participle barbarized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
  2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
    • The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine
  3. (intransitive) 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.[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC

Questions about barbarizes

What is barbarizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Barbarizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of barbarize.

Words near barbarizes in the dictionary

  1. barbarity
  2. barbarization
  3. barbarizations
  4. barbarize
  5. barbarized
  6. barbarizes
  7. barbarizing
  8. Barbaro
  9. barbarocracies
  10. barbarocracy
  11. Barbaros

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