barbarize

UK /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/ US /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To cause to become savage or uncultured.

2

To become savage or uncultured.

The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.

3

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.

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