Found 2 items, similar to barbarize.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: barbarize barbarize v 1: become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language [syn: barbarise] 2: make crude or savage in behavior or speech; “his years in prison have barbarized the young man” [syn: barbarise]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Barbarize Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.] To make barbarous. [1913 Webster] The hideous changes which have barbarized France. --Burke. [1913 Webster] Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing.] [1913 Webster] 1. To become barbarous. [1913 Webster] The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. [1913 Webster] The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]