brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
(verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; “Life in the camps had brutalized him”
brutalize, brutalise
(verb) treat brutally
Source: WordNet® 3.1
brutalise (third-person singular simple present brutalises, present participle brutalising, simple past and past participle brutalised)
(transitive) To inflict brutal violence on.
(transitive) To make brutal, cruel or harsh.
(intransitive, dated) To live or behave like a brute.
Source: Wiktionary
22 September 2024
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
