Barbarize

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.

1. To make barbarous.

   The hideous changes which have barbarized France.