What does "brutalize" mean?
Brutalize: To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
Additional senses
- 2.To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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