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Meanings of brutalise in English

Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.

Usage of brutalise in English
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And for many of the others, it could only brutalise them further.
The Only Victor
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They shared experiences of how drug policies stigmatise and brutalise farmers.
The Guardian
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We encourage each other in vindictiveness and hypocrisy, we cow and brutalise the transgressor.
The Child of the Dawn
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He says law enforcement and immigration officials have continued to brutalise and wrongfully detain him.
Reuters
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Johann continued to brutalise because he had been able to kill his mother without remorse.
White corridor
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All the Mensur does is to brutalise him.
Three Men on the Bummel
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RTÉ director-general, Dee Forbes, now appears to be limbering up to brutalise its cost base instead.
The Irish Times
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They brutalise and degrade both prisoners and officials.
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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The evidence is clear that such measures do not work to protect minorities but instead to brutalise them.
Radio NZ
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Those officers would continue to brutalise my brother until he died. You can donate to the fund here.
News.com.au
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He accepts that the world failed Syria and gave Assad the time and space to brutalise the population.
The Guardian
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He ignored the dead and dying in the pandemic and wants to brutalise the protesters in our cities.
The Guardian
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Others might brutalise or neglect the native speech, that true "open field" for charm and sway over men.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
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It is often said that the trade of war, the heavy slaughter in which they have participated, is bound to brutalise them.
The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards Fellows...
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God forbid, thought I, that I should brutalise this innocent creature; let her go at her own pace, and let me patiently follow.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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But for thousands of sexually brutalised women, the battle has just begun.
The Irish Times
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