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  1. 1. v. i. To become barbarous. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. i. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To make barbarous. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language Source: wordnet
  5. 5. v. make crude or savage in behavior or speech Source: wordnet
  6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 7. To make barbarous.The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke. Source: adambom
  8. 8. v. become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language v. make crude or savage in behavior or speech Source: ecdict

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