The meaning of Brutalize

verb

Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect.

Usage examples:

She thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women

verb

To reduce the quality of something

Usage examples:

Degrading water/air quality, degraded sound quality, the state is funding projects to restore degra…

verb

To become worse in quality, or to make something worse

Usage examples:

Unlike with a cassette player, the sound of the mp3 player doesn't degrade as the battery weakens.

verb

Deprive of positive human qualities.

Usage examples:

Brutal management methods and fear can dehumanize people

verb

To remove from a person the special human qualities of independent thought, feeling for other people, etc.

Usage examples:

It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.

verb

Make less sensitive.

Usage examples:

Creams to desensitize the skin at the site of the injection

verb

To cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain, less strongly than before

Usage examples:

Seeing too much violence on television can desensitize people to it.

verb

Make or become hard or harder.

Usage examples:

Wait for the glue to harden

verb

To make or become stronger or more severe

Usage examples:

[ i ] as the war progressed, attitudes on both sides hardened., [ i ] in a few hours the cement wil…

verb

If prices or share prices harden, they increase

Usage examples:

If the oil price hardens this week and remains high, there will be some effect on fuel prices by th…

verb

Accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant.

Usage examples:

These children have been inured to violence

phrasal verb

If you become inured to something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and bear it

Usage examples:

After spending some time on the island they became inured to the hardships.

verb

Make or become stronger or more resilient.

Usage examples:

He tried to toughen his son up by sending him to public school