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verb

brutalise v. t.

To treat brutally.

Synonyms: brutalize.

To cause to become like a brute; as, life in the concentration camp had brutalised him.

Synonyms: brutalize.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Brutalise" Quotes from Famous Books

... glasses, when he himself can swill it in a brown john. He will not believe that the flavour is more delicate in the smaller dose. He will not believe that to walk this unconscionable distance is merely to stupefy and brutalise himself, and come to his inn, at night, with a sort of frost on his five wits, and a starless night of darkness in his spirit. Not for him the mild luminous evening of the temperate walker! He has nothing left of man but a physical ...

— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson

... heart. In the deadly shade of that chilling cloud, the flower of his opening life has too often withered before it has had time to expand. For what is most cruel in cruelty is its tendency to demoralise its victims, especially those who are of tender years—to harden them, to brutalise them, to make them stubborn and secretive, to make them shifty and deceitful, to throw them back upon themselves, to shut them up within themselves, to quench the joy of their hearts, to numb their ...

— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes

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