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Barbarize

//ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to become savage or uncultured. transitive
  2. 2
    make crude or savage in behavior or speech wordnet
  3. 3
    To become savage or uncultured. intransitive

    "The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan."

  4. 4
    become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language wordnet
  5. 5
    To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. intransitive

    "The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms."

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