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.