brutalize

brutalize is a 9-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 23 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
2. intransitive verb. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
3. verb. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

   Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise

4. verb. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

   "Life in the camps had brutalized him"

   Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise

5. verb. treat brutally

   Synonyms: brutalise

Synonyms

animalise, animalize, brutalise

Common word forms

brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing

Words from these letters

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