rebarbarize
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editrebarbarize (third-person singular simple present rebarbarizes, present participle rebarbarizing, simple past and past participle rebarbarized)
- (transitive) To barbarize again; to reduce again to a state of barbarism.
- 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:
- Germany […] rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars.
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edit- “rebarbarize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.