Associations to the word «Barbarize»

Wiktionary

BARBARIZE, verb. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
BARBARIZE, verb. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
BARBARIZE, verb. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

Dictionary definition

BARBARIZE, verb. Become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language.
BARBARIZE, verb. Make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne