Meaning of BRUTALIZE
| Pronunciation: | | 'broot`lIz
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- [v] become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
- [v] make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
- [v] treat brutally
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| | Synonyms: | | animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalise |
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| | See Also: | | alter, change, do by, handle, treat | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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