barbarize

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barbarize (third-person singular simple present barbarizes, present participle barbarizing, simple past and past participle barbarized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
  2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
    • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
      The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
  3. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

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