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brutalize
/ ˈːəˌɪ /
verb
- to make or become brutal
- tr to treat brutally
Derived Forms
- ˌܳٲˈپDz, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- t··tDz noun
- over·t··tDz noun
- v·t· verb (used with object) overbrutalized overbrutalizing
- ܲ·t· verb (used with object) unbrutalized unbrutalizing
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of brutalize1
Example Sentences
Trump also chided our international allies, calling some of them “foreign cheaters” and “scavengers” who ripped off and “brutalized” Americans for 50 years.
In Los Angeles, the sun was rising over neighborhoods brutalized by flames.
“A branch factory in occupied Czechoslovakia ensured that the troops pushing eastward, brutalizing and murdering, burning entire villages to the ground, could do so with radiant teeth,” Dunthorne writes, combining ironic detachment with horror.
“I occupy buildings ... raid files ... scream obscenities ... throw rocks ... and call all cops pigs ... in an attempt to humanize this brutalized society,” a longhaired demonstrator said in one cartoon from that turbulent decade.
“Sunday, a baby donkey was ripped from his mother and brutalized,” said one envelope.
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