单词	brutalizing
释义	brutalize verb bru·​tal·​ize ˈbrü-tᵊl-ˌīz  brutalized; brutalizing transitive verb 1 : to make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman temperaments brutalized by poverty and disease 2 : to treat brutally an accord not to brutalize prisoners of war brutalization ˌbrü-tᵊl-ə-ˈzā-shən  noun Synonyms animalize bestialize dehumanize See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences a young man brutalized by the experience of war The prisoners claimed to have been brutalized by their captors. Recent Examples on the Web Ryon Travis didn't just brutalize women, the feds say. Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2022 As protesters attempted to head across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, they were met by a group of state troopers who stood ready to attack and brutalize them. Jacquelyne Germain, CNN, 19 July 2022 Public torture in seventeenth-century Europe created searing, unforgettable spectacles of pain and suffering to convey the message that a system in which husbands could brutalize wives, and parents could beat children, was ultimately a form of love. David Graeber, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 Trump was able to use that weakness and disorganization to transform the department first into a machine for carrying out policies designed to brutalize immigrants, and then into a police force attacking people protesting the murder of George Floyd. Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021 Roaming morality police brutalize women for not wearing the mandatory hijab. Hossein Ronaghi, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021 On the other side of the Canadian border, Nick drives Fred into No Man's Land, where he is met with June and a group of women who brutalize him to death. Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2021 This is even more critical when police are allowed to brutalize someone unjustifiably or murder people in the streets. Edward Segal, Forbes, 25 May 2021 Anna’s trauma has helped her in her police work of tracking down the monsters who brutalize children. Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021 See More Word History First Known Use circa 1704, in the meaning defined at sense 1 brutalizing verb present participle of brutalize 1 as in dehumanizing to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being even three years in a prison camp did not brutalize him Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance dehumanizing humiliating degrading poisoning subverting debauching animalizing demeaning depraving bestializing corrupting disgracing polluting contaminating prostituting abasing humbling perverting profaning warping tainting Antonyms & Near Antonyms improving honoring exalting dignifying respecting purifying amending restoring cleansing elevating uplifting ennobling See More 2 as in abusing to inflict physical or emotional harm upon Red Cross workers reported that prisoners had been brutalized Synonyms & Similar Words abusing torturing bullying oppressing mistreating manhandling injuring persecuting hurting violating maltreating ill-treating harassing misusing tormenting mishandling outraging molesting harming taking apart victimizing ill-using messing over wronging kicking around burning sandbagging working (over) beating (up) roughing (up) messing (up) Antonyms & Near Antonyms fostering nurturing cherishing gratifying caring (for) indulging favoring coddling spoiling humoring pampering catering (to) babying mollycoddling See More
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