Brutalize

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  • transitive verb. To make cruel, harsh, or unfeeling.
  • transitive verb. To treat cruelly or harshly.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make brutal, coarse, gross, or inhuman; lower to the level of a brute.
  • To become brutal, inhuman, or coarse and beastly.
  • Also spelled brutalise.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
  • transitive verb. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Alternative spelling of brutalise.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
  • verb. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
  • verb. treat brutally
    • Word Usage
    "At least in the 18th century they knew what 'brutalize' meant. porkbelly"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    refine  spiritualize  
    Form
    brutalized  brutalizing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alter  change  do by  handle  modify  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    utilize  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    animalize  assault  attack  barbarize  bastardize  
    verb-form
    brutalized  brutalizes  brutalizing  
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