Definition of "barbarizing" []

• Present participle of barbarize. (verb)

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• "In such establishments, a business which in itself is disgusting, and perhaps barbarizing, almost ceases to be so, and the part of it which cannot be deprived of its disgusting circumstances is performed by a very few individuals."
• "The Romans were essentially the leaders of civilization, according to the possibilities then existing; for their earliest usages and social forms involved a high civilization, whilst promising a higher: whereas all Moslem nations have described a petty arch of national civility -- soon reaching its apex, and rapidly barbarizing backwards."
• "The privilege of barbarizing the King’s English is assumed by all ranks and conditions of men."