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Barbarizing

Barbarize \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.

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barbarizing

vb. (present participle of barbarize English)

Usage examples of "barbarizing".

Instead, the Tosevites seemed to be barbarizing not only the shiplords but all the males of the conquest fleet.