Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make cruel, harsh, or unfeeling.
- transitive verb To treat cruelly or harshly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
- transitive verb To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative spelling of
brutalise .
from 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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At least in the 18th century they knew what 'brutalize' meant. porkbelly
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(It's annoying in this context that the normally meticulous Nicolson repeatedly misuses the term "brutalize," only once getting it right.)
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(It's annoying in this context that the normally meticulous Nicolson repeatedly misuses the term "brutalize," only once getting it right.)
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She turned out ok and we didn't need to brutalize her to do it.
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The 3' x 2' placard read: "The U.S. Gov. allows police to illegally murder and brutalize African-Americans and Hispanic people."
John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility?
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But in its closing laps, Angels & Demons makes up the distance with a series of twists that brutalize science and faith, character and continuity, and anything approximating narrative coherence.
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The 3' x 2' placard read: "The U.S. Gov. allows police to illegally murder and brutalize African-Americans and Hispanic people."
John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility?
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She turned out ok and we didn't need to brutalize her to do it.
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The 3' x 2' placard read: "The U.S. Gov. allows police to illegally murder and brutalize African-Americans and Hispanic people."
John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility?
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The 3' x 2' placard read: "The U.S. Gov. allows police to illegally murder and brutalize African-Americans and Hispanic people."
John W. Whitehead: Harold Hodge v. SCOTUS: Has the First Amendment Become an Exercise in Futility?
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