barbarizing
Rendering crude, uncivilized
Barbarizing is making something barbarous—stripping away civilization, refinement, or cultural sophistication.
The word implies degradation toward a cruder state: Critics accused the reforms of barbarizing the education system.
It can describe corrupting a language with foreign or vulgar elements, or reducing people to savage behavior.
Forcible theft during conflict
- plunderingForcible taking of goods
- raidingSudden attack for plunder
- sackingDismissal from employment
- ransackingSearching while wrecking
looting · despoiling · devastating · invading · overrunning · subjugating · colonizing · occupying
In earliest form
- savageFierce and untamed
- unculturedLacking refinement or education
- philistineArt-dismissing ignoramus
- heathenIrreligious nonbeliever
wild · feral · untamed · uncivil · unpolished · uncultivated · regressing · retrograding
Distorting from proper use
- debasingLowering in quality
- debauchingLeading into depravity
- taintingPolluting or corrupting
- pollutingIntroducing harmful contaminants
adulterating · contaminating · depraving · warping · spoiling · vitiating · undermining · subverting
Fierce and untamed
- cruelWillfully causing suffering
- viciousCruelly aggressive in nature
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- ferociousExtremely violent or aggressive
brutish · bloodthirsty · violent · ruthless · pitiless · bestial · atrocious · fiendish
Unpolished, raw state
- vulgarCrude or indecent
- uncouthLacking good manners
- roughUneven in surface
- crassCrudely lacking refinement
boorish · indelicate · unrefined · lowering · degrading · cheapening · debasing · roughening
pillaging
Forcible theft during conflict
- plunderingForcible taking of goods
- raidingSudden attack for plunder
- sackingDismissal from employment
ransacking · looting · despoiling · devastating · invading · overrunning · subjugating · colonizing · occupying · dominating
primitive
In earliest form
- savageFierce and untamed
- unculturedLacking refinement or education
- philistineArt-dismissing ignoramus
heathen · wild · feral · untamed · uncivil · unpolished · uncultivated · regressing · retrograding · backsliding
perverting
Distorting from proper use
- debasingLowering in quality
- debauchingLeading into depravity
- taintingPolluting or corrupting
polluting · adulterating · contaminating · depraving · warping · spoiling · vitiating · undermining · subverting · distorting
savage
Fierce and untamed
ferocious · brutish · bloodthirsty · violent · ruthless · pitiless · bestial · atrocious · fiendish · inhuman
crude
Unpolished, raw state
crass · boorish · indelicate · unrefined · lowering · degrading · cheapening · debasing · roughening · hardening
barbarizingcivilizing
Making more refined
refining · cultivating · enlightening · educating · sophisticating
barbaric, barbarian, barbarity, barbarous, barbarism, barbarously, barbarically, barbarisms, barbarities