English dictionary

brutalize

/'br/u/t,/-/l/aI/z/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

verb

treat brutally

verb.social

Synonyms brutalise

Source: WordNet 3.0
make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

verb.change

Examples
Life in the camps had brutalized him.

Synonyms animalise animalize brutalise

Source: WordNet 3.0
become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

verb.change

Source: WordNet 3.0
To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

verb

Source: webster1913
To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.

verb

Source: webster1913