barbarizes

Example:Efforts to civilize the younger generation are crucial to societal development.

Definition:to make someone or something more cultured and refined, esp. by making or teaching them to value moral and aesthetic qualities.

Example:The decline in literature and the media barbarized the society and destroyed its cultural refinement.

Definition:To reduce in quality, especially by subtracting a part or by removing impurities; to make less cultured, esp. by destroying artistic and intellectual qualities.

Example:The rapid changes in his community have de-cultured him, leaving him without values or traditions.

Definition:to remove culture from someone; to make uncultured; to destroy culture.