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Verb: brutalize  'broo-tu,lIz
  1. Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
    "Life in the camps had brutalized him"; "War can brutalize even the gentlest people";
    - brutalise [Brit], animalize, animalise [Brit]
     
  2. Treat brutally
    "The guards brutalized the prisoners, causing outrage among human rights organizations";
    - brutalise [Brit]

Derived forms: brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing

Type of: alter, change, do by [Brit], handle, modify, treat