BRUTALIZE


Meaning of BRUTALIZE in English

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

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