BARBARIZING Antonyms

• the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

• foster the growth of

• prepare for crops

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• give an education to

• create by training and teaching

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents)

• make more humane

• a worldly-wise person

• make less natural or innocent

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• make more complex or refined

• very restrained or quiet

• brought from wildness into a domesticated state

• flat and uninspiring

• very docile

• correct by punishment or discipline

• make less strong or intense; soften

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

• make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans