If an unpleasant experience brutalizes someone, it makes them cruel or violent.
例句
He was brutalized by the experience of being in prison.牢獄生活讓他變得殘忍粗暴。
VERB
虐待；殘忍對待
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.一個(gè)虐待奴役他人的15世紀(jì)的探險(xiǎn)者Here's a man who has brutalized his own people...這是一個(gè)殘暴對待自己的人民的人。