Definition of Brutalize

1. Verb. Treat brutally.

Exact synonyms: Brutalise
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"
Exact synonyms: Animalise, Animalize, Brutalise
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization

3. Verb. Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.
Exact synonyms: Animalise, Animalize, Brutalise
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization

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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