brutalise

Other forms of brutalise

past tense

brutalised·

present participle

brutalising·

third person

brutalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brutalise

What does brutalise mean?

brutalise means "treat brutally". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brutalise?

brutalise has 3 syllables: bru-ta-lise. The stress falls on "bru".

What is another word for brutalise?

Close synonyms include brutalize, brutalize, animalize, animalise, brutalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brutalise a common word?

brutalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.