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Meanings of brutalize in English

Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.

Usage of brutalize in English
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I thought of how Merril used to beat and brutalize Faunita.
Escape
2
I used those snow days to train and brutalize myself.
Rock and Ice Magazine
3
The prison almost invariably tends to brutalize men and breeds bitterness and blank despair.
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
4
To brutalize a man's conscience seemed to him worse than to murder his body.
The Case of Richard Meynell
5
How habitual sin and misery suffice to brutalize "the human face divine"!
For the Term of His Natural Life
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Without repercussions, they will continue to brutalize and kill people, and engage in cover-ups.
Ebony
7
After the match, Shane and Drew brutalize Lance until Roman comes out for the save.
The South African
8
Are they, for that blind fault, to brutalize her?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919
9
And the gods help you if you neglect them, or brutalize them, or train them badly.
A Game of Thrones
10
A righteous defensive war, such as Belgium and France are waging, does not brutalize the nation.
Golden Lads
11
Rum will brutalize the manliest man in Christendom.-J.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
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One must never brutalize a horse-indeed ,noone but a brute does-butone must rule him.
In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda
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At least she had some experience with this one, who used his position to brutalize his victims.
Goodbye dolly
14
A love of the truly beautiful would save children from things which encoarsen and brutalize their natures.
Pushing to the Front
15
They brutalize half the fellows I know.
Lady Rose's Daughter
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He continues to brutalize his own people.
NY Magazine
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