Word Meanings - BRUTALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

INHUMANITY
The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
BRUTAL
1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
BRUTALLY
In a brutal manner; cruelly.
INHUMANLY
In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
INHUMAN
1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
BRUTALISM
Brutish quality; brutality.
BRUTALITY
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. 2. An inhuman act. The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham.
BRUTALIZATION
The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
BRUTALIZE
To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
UNFEELING
1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. --