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)
- To cause to become savage or uncultured.
- 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
- 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.
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