Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See barbarization, barbarize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act which causes people revert to a state which is primitive and uncivilized.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized

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Examples

  • The endless theatre of supposed process towards a two-state solution just masks the continuing dispossession and cantonisation and barbarisation of the Palestinian people.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • The endless theatre of supposed process towards a two-state solution just masks the continuing dispossession and cantonisation and barbarisation of the Palestinian people.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • Israel’s assassination of Hamas’ leader Sheik Ahmad Yassin is a milestone in this process of barbarisation of the human kind.

    Is Israel “Fulfilling Hitler’s Dream?” | Jewschool 2004

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