Definition of "brutalization" [bru•tal•i•za•tion]

• The act or process of making brutal (noun)
• An instance of being brutalized. (noun)

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• "It's a big demented fool indeed who thinks he can con America and the world by calling the brutalization of a fellow human by inflicting severe pain and terror upon his body and psyche anything graced by the adjective "enhanced" and a total of three inflated words when one simple word is eminently sufficient and precise, and that word is TORTURE."
• "This kind of brutalization (murder, rape etc) has been happening in townships all over the country since rock ages."
• "Abel Barrera Hernandez, under regular threat of death for documenting and exposing harassment, brutalization, rape, enforced disappearance, and murder committed by U.S.-backed Mexican military and state police forces against indigenous communities in Guerrero, Mexico."