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Definition of Brutalize

1. Verb. Treat brutally.

2. Verb. Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman. "Life in the camps had brutalized him"

3. Verb. Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.

Definition of Brutalize

1. v. t. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

2. v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.

Definition of Brutalize

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of brutalise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brutalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brutalize

bruta brutal brutalisation brutalisations brutalise brutalised brutalises brutalising brutalisms brutalitarian

brutalitarians brutalities brutality brutalization brutalizations brutalize (current term) brutalized brutalizes brutalizing brutally

brute brute(a) brute-fact brute-force brute fact brute facts brute force bruted brutelike brutely

Literary usage of Brutalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "Bethink Yourselves.": Tolstoy's Letter on the Russo-Japanese War by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... deprave and brutalize men. Every one knows the weakness of the arguments in favor of war, such as were brought forward by De Maistre, Moltke and others, ..."

2. Earth-hunger and Other Essays by William Graham Sumner (1913)
"DOES LABOR brutalize? Those who live a hundred years from now will doubtless see strange results from a period in which men discuss their own position on ..."

3. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"The same causes now brutalizing girls brutalize their fathers and their brothers, and the same causes brutalize the ignorant and low-lived that poison the ..."

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