change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
barbarise, barbarize - make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"
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barbarize - make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
barbarise, barbarize - become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
Using the dialect to write his Chronicle of the island, he wrote that when the Lusignans came, people "started learning Frankish and barbarised Roman and up until today we write in Frankish and Roman and people don't know what we're talking about."
The tragic result is a gradual barbarisation of the colonisers, who eventually are looked upon as more savage than the people they went out to "civilise." To the horror of the colonisers, the home or metropolitan culture secretly or even publicly may consider the natives more civilised than the barbarised colonisers.
