Past tense of barbarize; made or became barbaric, crude, or corrupted.
From 'barbarize' in past tense form. The root 'barbarus' is from Latin meaning 'foreign' or 'wild,' with the '-ize' verb suffix and '-ed' past tense.
When colonizers said a culture was 'barbarized,' they usually meant it had resisted their influence—the word reveals more about the speaker's bias than reality.
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