brutalize
verb (used with object)
to make brutal.
brutalise
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a variation of
brutalize.
Example Sentences
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Women may avoid it because they know they are unable to sustain it, because they know it does brutalise them.
From The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding
Others might brutalise or neglect the native speech, that true "open field" for charm and sway over men.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Walter Pater
Is the net tendency of machinery to make labour more monotonous or less, to educate the worker or to brutalise him?
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
I want to apply discipline to the brutal, not to brutalise the sensitive.
From Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson
God forbid, thought I, that I should brutalise this innocent creature; let her go at her own pace, and let me patiently follow.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
