Thesaurus: barbarize

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1. v. i. To become barbarous.
2. v. i. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
3. v. t. To make barbarous.
4. v. become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
5. v. make crude or savage in behavior or speech
6. 1. To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey. 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. Milton. To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.
7. To make barbarous.The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.
8. v. become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language v. make crude or savage in behavior or speech