brutalize

🇺🇸 /ˈbruːtəlaɪz/ 🇬🇧 /ˈbruːtəlaɪz/
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標籤 TOP20000
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.

戰爭使士兵們變得冷酷無情。

R

To treat someone in a cruel or violent way.

The guards brutalized the prisoners, hitting them without mercy.

看守殘酷地毆打囚犯,毫不留情。

translation

v. 使人變得殘忍無情, 殘忍對待

詞形變化

3rd Present brutalizes
Past brutalized
Perfect brutalized
Progressive brutalizing