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BRUTALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brutalize mean? 

BRUTALIZE (verb)
  The verb BRUTALIZE has 3 senses:

1. treat brutallyplay

2. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhumanplay

3. become brutal or insensitive and unfeelingplay

  Familiarity information: BRUTALIZE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


BRUTALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they brutalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it brutalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: brutalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: brutalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: brutalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat brutally

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

brutalise; brutalize

Hypernyms (to "brutalize" is one way to...):

do by; handle; treat (interact in a certain way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

brutalization (the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously)

brutalization (the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

animalise; animalize; brutalise; brutalize

Context example:

Life in the camps had brutalized him

Hypernyms (to "brutalize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

brutal (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)

brutalization (an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

animalise; animalize; brutalise; brutalize

Hypernyms (to "brutalize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

brutal (resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility)

brutalization (an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities)


 Context examples 


Such a spectacle may brutalize those who are brutal, but I say that there is a spiritual side to it also, and that the sight of the utmost human limit of endurance and courage is one which bears a lesson of its own.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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