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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Barbarize

· Bar·ba·rize · IPA /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/
01 v. i. To become barbarous.
imp. & p. p. Barbarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing
  1. 1.
    To become barbarous.
    “The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.” De Quincey.
  2. 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.
02 v. t. To make barbarous.
  1. 1.
    To make barbarous.
    “The hideous changes which have barbarized France.” Burke.