brutalizev.
/ˈbruːtəlʌɪz/ 1. intransitive. To live or become like a brute.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degenerate [verb (intransitive)] > become like a brute
brutize1607
imbrute1637
brutalize1716
brutify1819
1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 5 He mixed..with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habit and manners.
1749 H. Walpole Let. 17 Nov. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 327 If possible, we brutalize more and more.
1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 152 To discuss on how much a person may vegetate or brutalize in the back settlements of the republic.
1843 T. De Quincey Ceylon in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 632/1 Man does not brutalize, by possibility, in pure insulation.
2. transitive. To render brutal or inhuman; to imbue with a brutal nature.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > deprive of human qualities > brutalize
bestialize1610
unman1626
bestiate1628
embrutish1639
imbrutish1639
bebeast1640
imbrute1640
beast1646
brutify1668
brutalizea1704
embrutalize1876
a1704 T. Brown To Lumenissa in Duke of Buckingham Wks. (1705) II. ii. 113 Which..Were but at once to Brutalize Mankind.
1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics iv. 54 The efforts that were made to infatuate and brutalize the people.
1885 A. J. C. Hare Stud. Russia i. 23 That which does most to brutalize the lower orders in Russia is their constant habit of intemperance.
3. To treat as a brute, or brutally.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [verb (transitive)] > treat
savage1611
brutalize1879
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)]
savage1796
brutalize1879
1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 15 God forbid..that I should brutalise this innocent creature.
1885 E. Lynn Linton Autobiogr. Christopher Kirkland I. 274 He would have died outright had he been brutalized in any way.
Derivatives
ˈbrutalized adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] > made
brutified1595
brutizeda1711
unhumanized1794
brutalized1803
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective] > inhumanly > rendered
brutizeda1711
unhumanized1794
brutalized1803
1803 J. Bristed Ανθρωπλανομενος I. 455 The coarse and brutalized indulgences of mere unalloyed sensuality.
ˈbrutalizing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] > making
brutalizing1803
bestializing1813
brutifying1816
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective] > inhumanly > rendering
abrutalizing1795
brutalizing1803
brutifying1816
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 106 The bloody and brutalising spirit of Popery.
1844 S. St. John Hayti v. 183 The masses [in Hayti] are given up to this brutalising [Vaudoux] worship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
<
v.a1704