Definitions for: Brutalize


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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalise

See Also: alter, change, do by, handle, treat

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