BRUTALIZE

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

Etymology

Verb

brutalize (third-person singular simple present brutalizes, present participle brutalizing, simple past and past participle brutalized)

Alternative spelling of brutalise

Source: Wiktionary

Bru"tal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. brutaliser.]

Definition: To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

Bru"tal*ize, v. i.

Definition: To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition