Usually means: Treating someone with extreme cruelty.
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  1. brutalizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. brutalizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. brutalizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Brutalizing, brutalizing: Wordnik
  5. brutalizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. brutalizing: Wiktionary
  7. Brutalizing, brutalizing: Dictionary.com
  8. brutalizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Brutalizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Brutalizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. brutalizing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. brutalizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brutalizing: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Cruel, harsh, or otherwise insensitive.

Similar:
brutalise, brutal, cruel, harsh, savage, barbarous, imbruting, punishing, styptic, brutist, more...

Opposite:
humanizing, civilizing, refining

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Similar:
brutalise, brutal, cruel, harsh, savage, barbarous, imbruting, punishing, styptic, brutist, more...

Opposite:
humanizing, civilizing, refining



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