brutalizes

• present tense form

  present tense

  Used to describe things happening now or regularly.

  of brutalize (3rd person singular).
  brutalize

  verb (used with object)

  to make brutal.

Example Sentences

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brutalizes

Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging.

From Time Magazine Archive

It brutalizes the men and prevents the growth of feminine qualities, coyness among others.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

You must remember that such toil brutalizes a man; it makes him callous, selfish, unfeeling necessarily.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

Now, then, you will understand what I meant by saying that our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

Frugality, in fact, softens character, in animals as in men; gross feeding brutalizes it.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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