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third-person singular simple present barbarizes, present participle barbarizing, simple past and past participle barbarized
(transitive) To cause to become savage or uncultured. examples
(intransitive) To become savage or uncultured. quotations examples
The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan.
1839, Thomas De Quincey, “Philosophy of Roman History”, in Blackwood's Magazine
(intransitive) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. quotations examples
The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms.
, [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson]