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Relating to how an action is undertaken in a savage and cruel way: Sad to say, but during a war so many soldiers kill their enemies barbarously and brutally.

The condition of savagery or brutality: The barbarousness and behavior of the few rowdy men standing outside the beer joint caused a loud racket and noise after dark in the street.

In history, a name for an area of Northern Africa stretching from Western Egypt to the Atlantic: The Barbary was used as a settlement for pirates from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

The removal of the existence of crude or savage behaviors and languages: The people who left the uncivilized area of the tropical forests to live in the modern culture of the city went through a process called debarbarization so they could survive better in their new environment.

To free from ignorance in matters of taste and crude behavior including verbal expressions: Some people progress first by being debarbarized then they can progress to being civilized.

Not being purely barbaric by showing some influence of civilized or refined types: Some mixobarbaric elements in a society of barbarism are shown by the working of civilization, or a culture,, or of art.

The process of a society to revert back to a a primitive and uncivilized state: In the novel, the people of the island went through a transaction of rebarbarization through their new leaders to a pre-civilized condition where individual power and brutal force succeeded law, order, and accepted fair social behavior..

To revert back into a condition of cruelty and brutality: Following the war, the country was rebarbarized into a state of havoc, savagery, ruthlessness, and viciousness.

Rare, the process of returning something or a person back into a state of wildness and brutality: Rebarbarizing was part of the hooligans plan for changing the ways of new members into ruthless, remorseless, and merciless people.

Outdated, someone who is considered to be partially, or half, civilized: Mary and Tom thought that their daughter was a semibarbarian because she was quite mannerly and well-behaved at times, and at other times quite crude, rough, and vulgar.

Referring to something or someone who is not rendered brutal or cruel: The family was very happy to live in an unbarbarized country where they had enough food and felt safe.