v. t. | 1. | To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman. |
v. i. | 1. | To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. |
Verb | 1. | brutalize - treat brutally Synonyms: brutalise |
2. | brutalize - make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" | |
3. | brutalize - become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling |