brutalization

1. 1.

   the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner

   Synonymsbrutalisation

   Broadercondition
2. 2.

   the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously

   Synonymsbrutalisation

   Broaderwrongdoing
3. 3.

   an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities

   Synonymsbrutalisationanimalizationanimalisation

   Broaderdegradation

Other forms of brutalization

plural

brutalizations·

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 brutalization

What does brutalization mean?

brutalization means "the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brutalization?

brutalization has 5 syllables: bru-ta-li-za-tion. The stress falls on "bru". In IPA it is /ˈbɹutələˌzeɪʃən/.

What is another word for brutalization?

Close synonyms include brutalisation, brutalisation, brutalisation, animalization, animalisation. 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 brutalization a common word?

brutalization 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.

What rhymes with brutalization?

94 words rhyme with brutalization. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.