A Name to Remember

Last week the website  Wordsmith <wsmith@wordsmith.org> ran a series of words derived from people's names.  Monday's word was 

grimthorpe

PRONUNCIATION:

(GRIM-thorp) 

MEANING:

verb tr.: To restore or remodel something without paying attention to its original character, history, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Edmund Beckett, first Baron Grimthorpe (1816-1905), an architect whose restoration of St. Albans Cathedral in England was criticized for radical changes made to the building. Earliest documented use: 1890.

Lord Grimthorpe, a British architect

Treated history with little respect

His name’s still in use

For visual abuse

And buildings whose appearance he wrecked.

His sense of esthetics was warped

The lessons of history unadsorped

And to this day

You may hear people say

That lovely old building got grimthorped.

If your named were verbed what would it mean?