rebarbarize

re- +‎ barbarize

rebarbarize (third-person singular simple present rebarbarizes, present participle rebarbarizing, simple past and past participle rebarbarized)

1. (transitive) To barbarize again; to reduce again to a state of barbarism.
   • 1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform:

     Germany […] rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars.

• rebarbarization

• “rebarbarize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.