brutalize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

brutalize
    v 1: treat brutally [syn: {brutalize}, {brutalise}]
    2: make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had
       brutalized him" [syn: {brutalize}, {brutalise}, {animalize},
       {animalise}]
    3: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: {brutalize},
       {brutalise}, {animalize}, {animalise}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Brutalize \Bru"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brutalized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Brutalizing}.] [Cf. F. brutaliser.]
   To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Brutalize \Bru"tal*ize\, v. i.
   To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
   [R.]
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         He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with
         them in their habits and manners.        --Addison.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "brutalize":
      assault, attack, barbarize, bastardize, batter, burn, butcher,
      callous, carry on, case harden, corrupt, debauch, demoralize,
      deprave, destroy, go on, hammer, harden, indurate, inure,
      lay waste, loot, maul, mug, ossify, pervert, pillage, rage, ramp,
      rampage, rant, rape, rave, riot, roar, ruin, sack, savage,
      slaughter, sow chaos, steel, storm, tear, tear around, terrorize,
      vandalize, violate, vitiate, warp, wreck

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