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Oppress vs Brutalize - What's the difference?

oppress | brutalize |

As verbs the difference between oppress and brutalize

is that oppress is (obsolete) physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush while brutalize is .

oppress

English

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
  • * , II.x:
    • Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
  • To keep down by force
    • The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
  • To make sad or gloomy
    • We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.

    Related terms

    * oppression

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    * * English transitive verbs

    brutalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * brutalise (British)

    Verb

    (brutaliz)
  • * 1919 , :
    • The subconscious activities are not rationalized and humanized, they are in fact more brutalized than ever, inasmuch as under the aegis of military law and under the tacit understanding that necessity knows no law, there is no pity and no mercy in war.