brutalize

🇺🇸 /ˈbruːtəlaɪz/ 🇬🇧 /ˈbruːtəlaɪz/
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verb
R

To make someone unable to feel normal human emotions like sympathy for others who are suffering.

The war brutalized the soldiers, making them hard and unfeeling.

战争使士兵们变得冷酷无情。

R

To treat someone in a cruel or violent way.

The guards brutalized the prisoners, hitting them without mercy.

看守残酷地殴打囚犯,毫不留情。

translation

v. 使人变得残忍无情, 残忍对待

词形变化

3rd Present brutalizes
Past brutalized
Perfect brutalized
Progressive brutalizing