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US
/ˈbɹutəɫəˌzeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
- the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner
- the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously
How To Use brutalization In A Sentence
- The Grand Inquisitor, that man of evil, destroyed men's souls, by suppressing the creative activity of their minds, and aided this brutalization of men and women by reducing them to a state of relative bestialization, like that of slaves and serfs. LaRouche's Latest
- There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalization of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job.
- The quick, shocking flashbacks of Sethe's brutalization by her white masters don't do the job -- they're horrific, but with a B-movie luridness. The Ghosts Of Slavery
- It stands to reason that the fragile tissues of culture are dislocated, and its delicate edges defaced, by such persistive governmental brutalization as the inhabitants have undergone. Old Calabria
- When someone new enters the military, the organisation sets about what it calls resocialisation or, as Mr Killology, Dave Grossman puts it, brutalization. Latest News from Ekklesia
