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What does brutalization mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The act or process of making brutal
  2. An instance of being brutalized.
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During the protest I witnessed police brutalization of homeless persons, especially around panhandling and sleeping outside.
Clashes among armed factions, with the accompanying brutalization of the populace, have heightened the climate of fear.
The German occupation resulted in a brutalization of society and 30,000 people were imprisoned.
Hardly a day goes by without evidence of intimidation, brutalization, torture or killing amounting to serious violations of international humanitarian law.
The increasing demoralization and brutalization of the young that is being discussed so much, is partly due to these conditions.
Also, for many Sunni villagers under ISIS' control, ISIS is just less bad than the brutalization and discrimination they received from Iraq's previous Shiite-led government.

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