The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of brutalize English)
Usage examples of "brutalizing".
How vividly, at that moment, did the brutalizing power of slavery flash before me!
The desire for this freedom had been benumbed, while I was under the brutalizing dominion of Covey.
And I suppose it’s the most brutalizing experience I can imagine because I can’t imagine doing it to someone, I can’t imagine wanting to.
Therefore, it is such a foreign feeling: I think that’s what seems so brutalizing about it.
Eve knew it was for love of her that he'd walked away from taking vengeance on the HSO operatives who'd witnessed her abuse those many years ago in Dallas--they'd witnessed a man beating and brutalizing his own daughter, and done nothing to stop it.