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brutalize

 verb
     
bru‧tal‧ize also brutalise British English [transitive usually passive]
1 to affect someone so badly that they lose their normal human feelings:
He was brutalized by his experiences in jail.
2 to treat someone in a cruel or violent way:
Demonstrators claimed they had been brutalized by police officers.
—brutalization noun [uncountable]
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