Barbarize
Barbarize ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
1.
To become barbarous.
The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
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.
Barbarize ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Compare French barbariser, Late Latin barbarizare.]
To make barbarous.
The hideous changes which have barbarized France.