Barbarize

Full definition of barbarize

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
• De QuinceyThe Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
3. (intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
• MiltonThe ill habit ... of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.