transcription, транскрипция: [ bru:təlaɪz ]
( brutalizes, brutalizing, brutalized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'brutalise'
1.
If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
Here’s a man who has brutalized his own people...
He was brutalized by the experience of being in prison.
VERB : V n , V-ed
2.
If one person brutalizes another, they treat them in a cruel or violent way.
... a 15th century explorer who brutalized people and enslaved them.
VERB : V n