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English-Thai Dictionary

barbarize

VT กระทำ ป่าเถื่อน ทำ โหดร้าย brutalize kar-tam-pa-thean

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BARBARIZE

v.t.To make barbarous. Hideous changes have barbarized France.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BARBARIZE

Bar "ba *rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized (; p. pr. & vb. n.Barbarizing (.]

1. To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

2. 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. Milton.

BARBARIZE

Bar "ba *rize, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.]

Defn: To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

New American Oxford Dictionary

barbarize

bar ba rize |ˈbärbəˌrīz ˈbɑrbəraɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. barbarizing ) cause to become savage or uncultured: the barbarizing effect of four decades of rock 'n' roll. DERIVATIVES bar ba ri za tion |ˌbärbərəˈzāSHən |noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘speak using barbarisms ’): from late Latin barbarizare, from Greek barbarizein ‘speak like a foreigner. ’

Oxford Dictionary

barbarize

barbarize |ˈbɑːbərʌɪz |(also barbarise ) ▶verb [ with obj. ] (usu. as adj. barbarizing ) cause to become savage or uncultured: the barbarizing effect of four decades of rock 'n' roll. DERIVATIVES barbarization |-ˈzeɪʃ (ə )n |noun ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘speak using barbarisms ’): from late Latin barbarizare, from Greek barbarizein ‘speak like a foreigner ’.