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What does barbarize mean?

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  1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
  2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
  3. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
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This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences.
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
If the most effectual method of degrading woman be to barbarize man, the certain means of dignifying her is to christianize him.

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