Barbarize

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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