barbarize

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: bar=ba=rize

CIDE DICTIONARY

barbarize, v. i. 

•  To become barbarous.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

barbarize, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.].

 To make barbarous.  [1913 Webster]
"The hideous changes which have barbarized France."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

barbarize, v.tr. & intr. (also -ise) make or become barbarous.

Derivative

barbarization n.