Brutalize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make cruel, harsh, or unfeeling.
  • v. To treat cruelly or harshly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Alternative spelling of brutalise.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
  • verb-intransitive. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make brutal, coarse, gross, or inhuman; lower to the level of a brute.
  • To become brutal, inhuman, or coarse and beastly.
  • Also spelled brutalise.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
  • v. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
  • v. treat brutally
  • Antonym
    refine    spiritualize   
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter    do by    handle   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beasty    unfeeling    animalize    imbrute    brutify   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    utilize