About The Word Brutalize

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Brutalize

Brutalize Meaning & Definition
Brutalize Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Brutalize?

[v] become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
[v] make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
[v] treat brutally

Synonyms | Synonyms for Brutalize: animalise | animalize | brutalise | brutalise

Related Terms | Find terms related to Brutalize: assault | attack | barbarize | bastardize | batter | burn | butcher | callous | carry on | case harden | corrupt | debauch | demoralize | deprave | destroy | go on | hammer | harden | indurate | inure | lay waste | loot | maul | mug | ossify | pervert | pillage | rage | ramp | rampage | rant | rape | rave | riot | roar | ruin | sack | savage | slaughter | sow chaos | steel | storm | tear | tear around | terrorize | vandalize | violate | vitiate | warp | wreck

See Also | alter | change | do by | handle | treat

Brutalize In Webster's Dictionary

\Bru"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brutalized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Brutalizing}.] [Cf. F. brutaliser.] To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
\Bru"tal*ize\, v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. --Addison.

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