verb
- making or becoming barbarous, crude, or uncivilized; degrading in culture or refinement
Usage: British spelling (American: barbarizing); present participle or gerund form of barbarise
Examples
- The constant violence in the media is barbarising society.
- Some critics argue that reality television is barbarising public discourse.
- The regime was accused of barbarising the population through propaganda and fear.
- Prolonged conflict has a barbarising effect on communities.
- Educational decline is barbarising the younger generation, they claim.