barbarize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
    barbarise.
  2. verb make crude or savage in behavior or speech
    barbarise.
    • his years in prison have barbarized the young man

WordNet

Bar"ba*rize intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Barbarized ; present participle & verbal noun Barbarizing
Definitions
  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.
Bar"ba*rize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.
Definitions
  1. To make barbarous.
    The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

Webster 1913