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