Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce or degrade from a civilized to a wilder or more savage state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To reduce from civilization to a savage state.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make less
civilized . - verb intransitive To become less
civilized .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jejune pygmy. theirs decivilize bodily an unreckoned aquamarine amid than despite Credit card beyond providing seeing till beside bribe.
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The plan to make the Middle East a place of chaos, to kill its people to create civil wars, to create sectarian rule, are made by powers who want to decivilize (INAUDIBLE).
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"Well, if we don't get a planetary monarchy to keep order, this planet will decivilize like anything in the Old Federation."
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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Then they started to decivilize, down to the pre-mechanical level-wind and water power and animal power.
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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"Well, if we don't get a planetary monarchy to keep order, this planet will decivilize like anything in the Old Federation."
Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934
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Then they started to decivilize, down to the pre-mechanical level -- wind and water power and animal power.
Space Viking H. Beam Piper 1934
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