brutalize,v.|ˈbruːtəlaɪz|[f.brutal a. + -ize.]1.intr.To live or become like a brute.1716AddisonFreeholderNo.5He mixed..with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habit and manners.1749WalpoleLett.H. Mann (1834) II. ccviii. 303If possible we brutalize more and more.1810ColeridgeFriend (1865) 152To discuss on how much a person may vegetate or brutalize in the back settlements of the republic.a1859De QuinceyCeylonWks.XII. 26Man does not brutalize, by possibility, in pure insulation.2.trans.To render brutal or inhuman; to imbue with a brutal nature.a1704T. BrownTo Lumenissa 113Which..Were but at once to Brutalize Mankind.1833H. MartineauFr.Wines &Pol.iv. 54The efforts that were made to infatuate and brutalize the people.1885A. J. C. HareRussia i. 23That which does most to brutalize the lower orders in Russia is their constant habit of intemperance.3.To treat as a brute, or brutally.1879StevensonTrav.Cevennes 15God forbid..that I should brutalise this innocent creature.1885Mrs. E. Lynn LintonChr.Kirkland I. 274He would have died outright had he been brutalized in any way.Hence ˈbrutalized, ˈbrutalizing ppl.adjs.1800SoutheyLett.(1856) I. 106The bloody and brutalising spirit of Popery.1803BristedPedest. Tour I. 455The coarse and brutalized indulgences of mere unalloyed sensuality.1844S.St.John Hayti v. 183The masses[in Hayti]are given up to this brutalising[Vaudoux]worship.