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(Latin: dull, heavy, stupid)

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brutalize (verb), brutalizes; brutalized; brutalizing
1. To cause someone to lose his or her normal human kindness or feelings: Silvia's husband seemed to brutalize her when she dropped the main dish of their dinner on the kitchen floor.
2. To treat a person in a very harsh and usually violent way: Mathew, a British soldier, said he was brutalized when he was a prisoner during the last war in Europe.

When George was robbed in his home, the robbers brutalized him and forced him to give them the cash that he had.

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