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Barbarize

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To make or become crude, savage, or barbarous.

v. to cause to become savage or uncultured

verb-intransitive. To become barbarous.

verb-intransitive. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

v. To make barbarous.

To speak or write like a barbarian or foreigner; use barbarisms in speech or writing.

To become barbarous.

To corrupt (language, art, etc.) by introducing impurities, or by departing from recognized classical standards.

To render barbarous.

Also spelled barbarise.

v. make crude or savage in behavior or speech

v. become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language

"This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences."

barbarized barbarizes barbarizing

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

barbarized barbarizing

Words with the same meaning

savage