embruting
/ɛmˈbrutɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of embrute; the act of making brutal or degrading.
- He worried that the violent movies were embruting his younger brother.
- The prison system was accused of embruting the inmates instead of rehabilitating them.
- The harsh discipline was embruting the students rather than teaching them.
Synonyms
adjective
- Tending to make brutal or degrade; causing a loss of humanity.
- The embruting effects of war can last for generations.
- The embruting conditions in the factory led to a strike.
- She wrote about the embruting nature of poverty and violence.