brutalize是什么意思？

brutalize

英[ˈbru:təlaɪz] 美[ˈbrutlˌaɪz]

• vt. 使丧失人类情感，使变残忍，残酷对待；
• vi. 变残忍，变粗暴；

第三人称单数：brutalizes;

过去式：brutalized;

过去分词：brutalized;

现在分词：brutalizing;

例句

• Over the lack, humans will turn in fear and brutalize one another. 由于(食物)匮乏, 人类将会转入恐慌并残酷对待彼此.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  使变残忍；使变粗暴
  If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
  例句
  He was brutalized by the experience of being in prison. 牢狱生活让他变得残忍粗暴。
• VERB
  虐待；残忍对待
  If one person brutalizes another, they treat them in a cruel or violent way.
  例句
  ... a 15th century explorer who brutalized people and enslaved them. 一个虐待奴役他人的15世纪的探险者 Here's a man who has brutalized his own people... 这是一个残暴对待自己的人民的人。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  使丧失人类情感;使变残忍
  Life in the camps had brutalized him. 露营生活使他变得残忍。 War brutalizes many men. 战争使许多人变得残忍。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. treat brutally
  2. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman;
  "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
  3. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling