(BrE also brutalise) verb [VN]
1 [usuallypassive] to make sb unable to feel normal human emotions such as pity:
soldiers brutalized by war
2 to treat sb in a cruel or violent way:
The prisoners were brutalized and deprived of basic rights.
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