brutalization , also: brutalisation

Brutalization is the process in which you lose a sense of your own worth as an individual.

The brutalization these prisoners suffer is very much our business.

Subsequently, after a period of brutalization, these too were executed.

In general, an unimaginable brutalization of morals came over people.

"She is a woman who has undergone brutalization for many years, mental and physical.

The victim was shown to be enjoying her vicious brutalization.

Americans are hardly indifferent to the brutalization of children.

There is excellent music whose use in films somehow does not bring charges of brutalization.

We've had reports of constant brutalization throughout the journey here."

They take personal responsibility to the fact that they started the brutalization stage to begin with.

The German occupation resulted in a brutalization of society and 30,000 people were imprisoned.

In general, young prisoners are more vulnerable than adults to sexual exploitation and physical brutalization.

After 500 years of brutalization, Africa must be rehabilitated.

It was the brutalization of the act of love.

The backgrounds of many killers show a history of brutalization.

"He's gone through four days of absolute brutalization and hell," said a close friend of long standing.

The brutalization of women in an abandoned movie theater, for example, is interpreted symbolically.

I knew, too, that the cost of my tranquillity was the brutalization of thousands, black and white.

It's part of the brutalization of a generation that's going on at the moment."

As a case in point, we have all seen what thirty-five years of brutalization by Saddam did to Iraqi society.

Toilet plungers, the symbol of the brutalization, were a theme throughout the day.

The knowledge is of a hellish brutalization of a people, a nation and a civilization.

What kind of message would this toy send them about brutalization of women?"

His neutral tone and bland expression gave no indication that he was discussing the brutalization of children.

Those seeking to abolish capital punishment say it may actually promote murder by adding to social brutalization.