BARBARIZE

barbarize, barbarise

(verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech; “his years in prison have barbarized the young man”

barbarize, barbarise

(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

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

(transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured.

(intransitive) To become savage or uncultured.

(intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

Source: Wiktionary

Bar"ba*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized (; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing (.]

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, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.]

Definition: To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition