brutalize

Definition

  • verb: to cause (someone) to lose ordinary human kindness or feelings
  • verb: to make 'brutal', unfeeling, or inhuman

Examples

  • a young man 'brutalized' by the experience of war

  • She claimed she had been sexually 'brutalized'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every Negro man and woman who stands by without joining this fight as their brothers and sisters are humiliated, brutalized, and ripped from this earth! When I heard President Kennedy had been shot and killed... And when I heard just yesterday that Malcolm X, (..)
    2014 Selma
  • (..) and hailed him King in the North. And where was King Robb when the ironborn attacked this castle? When they threw my wife and children in prison and brutalized and killed our subjects? Taking up with a foreign whore. Getting himself and those who followed him killed. I served House Stark once, (..)
    2016 TvShow: Game of Thrones Title: The Broken Man Season: 6 Episode 7
  • (..) of boredom and shit ♪ ♪ You plant your fucking seed ♪ ♪ Don't try to take away my share ♪ ♪ I'll fight till you make me bleed ♪ ♪ I'll brutalize your very will ♪ ♪ Throw every wish into the ground ♪ ♪ No one will take away from me ♪ ♪ This freedom I have found ♪ ♪ You leave me dry ♪ (..)
    2009 The Black Waters of Echo's Pond