brutalization

American  

[broot-uhl-uhz-ay-shuhn, broot-uhl-ahyz-] / ˌbrut əl əzˈeɪ ʃən, ˌbrut əl aɪz- /

noun

plural

brutalizations

1. the act or process of making or becoming brutal, inhumane, or coarse.

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Example Sentences

Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.

From Salon

The art, often stark but occasionally playful, addresses what Rosso calls “terricide”: brutalization of the Earth, women and Indigenous people, and cultures.

From Washington Post

We call on medical examiners to evaluate their own biases and conflicts of interest and to stop the misuse of medicine and science to potentially exculpate the police in the racist brutalization of Black men.

From Scientific American

However, as I have gotten older and watched television and social media depict the brutalization of African-Americans, at the hands of police, I have come to a space that is uncomfortable.

From New York Times

Additionally, approximately half of our current voting citizenry is quite tolerant of a lawbreaking president, the brutalization of our institutions and a political party that cannot tell the truth to its own constituency.

From Washington Post