barbarize
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
Verb

barbarize (barbarizes, present participle barbarizing; past and past participle barbarized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
  2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
    • The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
  3. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
    • [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: Printed for Thomas Underhill and/or for Thomas Johnson], OCLC 946735316 ↗:
      The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
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