The Collaborative International Dictionary
brutalise \brutalise\ v. t.
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to treat brutally.
Syn: brutalize.
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to cause to become like a brute; as, life in the concentration camp had brutalised him.
Syn: brutalize.
brutalise \brutalise\ v. i. to become brutal.
Syn: brutalize.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To brutally inflict violence on something. 2 (context transitive English) To make something brutal, (l/en: cruel) or (l/en: harsh).
WordNet
Usage examples of "brutalise".
She had been brutalised, debauched and robbed, and still he could not bleach that picture from his mind.
Who knows but this lust of hers for sanguinary domination was the natural enough issue of the brutalising serfdom of her predecessors in the family line of the Peckovers?
On all the doorsteps Bat little girls, themselves only just out of infancy, nursing or neglecting bald, red-eyed, doughy-limbed abortions in every stage of babyhood, hapless spawn of diseased humanity, born to embitter and brutalise yet further the lot of those who unwillingly gave them life.
One road takes them deeper and deeper into crime, into becoming real brutalised desperadoes.
Some of the men were in German naval uniforms, others, in ordinary seaman's dungarees, but they all had the square dry-featured brutalised faces which Nazi ethnology had set up as the ideal of Nordic superiority.
And it is true that servitude, except when it actually brutalises, though corrupting to both, is less so to the slaves than to the slave-masters.