What is another word for brutalizes?

Pronunciation: [bɹˈuːtə͡lˌa͡ɪzɪz] (IPA)

Brutalizes is a violent and harsh word that can be replaced with gentler alternatives. Synonyms for brutalizes include mistreats, torments, abuses, oppresses, maltreats, and persecutes. These words convey the same meaning as brutalizes but with less aggression and harshness. Instead of using the word brutalizes, one can say that someone is mistreating or oppressing another person. This helps to convey the same message without the use of strong and intimidating language. People often react negatively to harsh and violent words, so it is important to choose the right words to communicate the message effectively.

What are the hypernyms for Brutalizes?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Brutalizes

It has been demonstrated that great wrongs may be redressed and great reforms be achieved without the shedding of one drop of human blood; that vengeance does not purify, but brutalizes; and that tolerance, which in private transactions is reckoned a virtue, becomes in public affairs a dogma of the most far-seeing statesmanship.
"The Art of Public Speaking"
Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
The narrative degrades and brutalizes the widowed heroine's affection for her second husband to the actual level of the vile conception which the poet attributes and confines to the foul imagination of her envious and murderous brothers.
"The Age of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
And cold, cold day and night, cold that brutalizes, that degenerates you till you would sell your soul, your mother's soul to be warm again.
"Home Fires in France"
Dorothy Canfield

Famous quotes with Brutalizes

  • When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too.
    Bayard Rustin

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