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Definition of Brutalise
1. Verb. Treat brutally.
Generic synonyms: Do By, Handle, Treat
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutalisation, Brutalization, Brutalization
2. Verb. Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman. "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization
3. Verb. Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization
Definition of Brutalise
1. Verb. (transitive) To brutally inflict violence on something. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make something brutal, (cruel) or (harsh). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brutalise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutalise
Literary usage of Brutalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Citizenship: A Book of Twenty-three Essays by Various Authors on Social by James Edward Hand (1899)
"Brutal punishments brutalise everybody connected with them. They brutalise the
officials who inflict them; they brutalise the person on whom they are ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1864)
"... forth and show that you are not using your property to corrupt and brutalise
those who commit their trust to your keeping, to brutalise the whole land. ..."
3. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1904)
"It was said to brutalise both those who received and those who inflicted such a
... It cannot brutalise the man who is already so brutalised as to make a ..."
4. The Ideas of the Day on Policy by Charles Buxton (1866)
"The idea that torture does but exasperate and brutalise the victims, ... The idea
that the infliction of bodily torment tends to brutalise aU who take part ..."
5. History of Latin Christianity: Including that of the Popes to the by Henry Hart Milman (1867)
"The whole tendency was to degrade and brutalise human nature: to degrade by
encouraging the belief in such monstrous follies ; to brutalise by the pomp of ..."
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