to brutalize
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- verb
- /ˈbruːtəˌlaɪz/
- Offensive
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brutalizar
- She is working to help children who have been brutalized by war and violence find peace.
- brutalized and humiliated
- brutalized men
- brutalized children
So often people are just brutalized by the thoughts that go through their heads.
- So often people are just brutalized by the thoughts that go through their heads.
- Of course, after the first Gulf War, we left the Kurds, you know, to him brutalizing them, which was.
- But when I'm getting into the head of, you know, these people who are being brutalized.
- And the women that were being brutalized and horribly mistreated did not come forward.
- And I wasn't happy to see what happened to my mom's people because they, they were victimized and brutalized by England at that time.
- And then just the non ending videos of black people being harassed, murdered, brutalized.
- And you know, the Baby P case, the, the little Peter Connolly, the little boy that was brutalized to death in, in Tottenham, in London.
- And on the other hand, like, do we really want the people that we've just seen staggering around skeletal and brutalized to come here?
- No, I haven't Turkish prison, you know, just just getting brutalized and raped daily and all kinds of it's a pretty gruesome movie.
- We we don't want to become brutalized by our own efforts to defend ourselves, which is to say be made more brutal or brutish.
Examples
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America has a long history of oppressing and brutalizing many peoples around the world.
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And then what we're going to do is we're going to continue to charge for it, just brutalizing these guys.
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Plus, it's harder to brutalize people when you live in the same community.
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We could just say, you know, go ahead and brutalize Ukraine and, and, and take it over.
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And whichever group was strongest and had the most numbers would brutalize the groups with the least numbers.
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A man who has no problem brutalizing his fellow man to get his way.
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Your son brutalized our son.
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So often people are just brutalized by the thoughts that go through their heads.
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Pimps, having even more power, continue threatening and brutalizing the women they control.
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For months, riot police intimidated them, attacked them, brutalized them, and made their lives a living hell.
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Synonyms
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5.7
To cause someone to feel severe physical or emotional pain, often on purpose
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3.7
To treat a person or animal cruelly to harm them
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6.7
To frighten someone very much by using threats or violence
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6.0
Treat someone cruelly or unfairly so they suffer
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2.9
To be cruel to people or animals
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8.0
To criticize someone or something very harshly, often in public
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7.5
To treat a person as if they are not human and take away their dignity
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8.4
To treat people in a cruel and unfair way
To make someone suffer or kill them because of their beliefs
Behave towards a person or animal in a cruel, unfair way
Make someone cruel and act without human feelings
Make a person or group lose human feelings and act like a cruel animal
To make language rude or violent
Antonyms
How Cruel
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Brutalize comes from the simple word brute, which once meant 'animal-like' or 'very rough'. So, to brutalize someone is to treat them like a 'brute' — with cruelty and violence, or to make them cruel.