brutalize
verb (used with object)
to make brutal.
brutalizes
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present tense formof brutalize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And cold, cold day and night, cold that brutalizes, that degenerates you till you would sell your soul, your mother's soul to be warm again.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
It is not the Creator who so brutalizes lives and emotions.
From Highland Ballad by Christopher Leadem
It unfailingly changes the expression; frequently, it degrades and brutalizes the face.
From The Winning Clue by James Hay
