Barbarize

Bar·ba·rize

Barbarize

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Barbarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing

  1. To become barbarous.
    The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
  2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
    The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.

Barbarize

v. t.
  1. To make barbarous.
    The hideous changes which have barbarized France.