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brutalize

[ broot-l-ahyz ]

verb (used with object)

brutalized, brutalizing.
  1. to make brutal.
  2. to treat (someone) with brutality.


brutalize

/ ˈːəˌɪ /

verb

  1. to make or become brutal
  2. tr to treat brutally
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܳٲˈپDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t··tDz noun
  • over·t··tDz noun
  • v·t· verb (used with object) overbrutalized overbrutalizing
  • ܲ·t· verb (used with object) unbrutalized unbrutalizing
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of brutalize1

First recorded in 1695–1705; brutal + -ize
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Trump also chided our international allies, calling some of them “foreign cheaters” and “scavengers” who ripped off and “brutalized” Americans for 50 years.

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In Los Angeles, the sun was rising over neighborhoods brutalized by flames.

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“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.

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“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.

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“Sunday, a baby donkey was ripped from his mother and brutalized,” said one envelope.

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