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Pedants' corner

Brutalize

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campion · 21/04/2011 18:31

Could someone possibly tell ( Eton educated) David Cameron that brutalize does not mean treating innocent people brutally.

Brutalized people behave without humanity (usually because they've been desensitised to suffering) and I don't think he's accusing the women and children of Libya of that.

It's running a close second to disinterested at the moment.

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Kirisox · 21/04/2011 23:07

Isn't it brutalise?

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campion · 23/04/2011 00:04

If it's good enough for the OED then it's good enough for me.

It's all Greek to me [buwink]

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EllenJane1 · 23/04/2011 21:51

As far as I know it has two meanings:

to make brutal,

2. to treat brutally.

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