barbarized

Verb

barbarize (third-person singular simple present barbarizes, present participle barbarizing, simple past and past participle barbarized)

1. (transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.
2. (intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.
   • The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine
3. (intransitive) 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.[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC