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Brutalize   /brˈutəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Brutalize

verb
(past & past part. brutalized; pres. part. brutalizing)
1.
Treat brutally.  Synonym: brutalise.
2.
Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman.  Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise.
3.
Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.  Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise.






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"Brutalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... now brutalizing girls brutalize their fathers and brothers, and the same causes brutalize the ignorant and low-lived that poison the air in which these girls are made to work. It is hard to pick out one man and say that he is to blame, or one woman ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll

... spiritual faith; yet not unmindful, in the mean time, of the labor yet to be done, to draw away the remaining multitudes of idolaters from the superstitions which, while they infatuate, degrade and brutalize them. With the zeal of the early apostles of this religion, they are applying themselves, with untiring diligence, to soften and subdue the stony heart of hoary Paganism, receiving but too often, as their only return, curses ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware



Words linked to "Brutalize" :   animalise, handle, modify, animalize, brutalization, brutal, do by, treat, change, alter



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