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n. - An act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Verb (used with object) : foreign influences barbarizing the Latin language
  • That, to my mind, is a main cause for the barbarization of political ways in our time.
  • On the other hand, the "barbarian" ways of life also transformed the Chinese, a process Yu calls "barbarization."
  • Global Scenario Group (GSG) Global scenarios based on 3 classes – conventional worlds, barbarization (bad), great transitions (good).
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