embrutecer

v.

1 to stultify, to make dull.

2 to brutalize, to bestialize, to brutalise, to make brutish.

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embrutecer

Conjugation model [AGRADECER], like {{link=agradecer}}agradecer

► verbo transitivo

1 (facultades etc) to dull, deaden

► verbo pronominal embrutecerse

1 to become dull, become stupefied

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1.

VT to stupefy, dull the senses of

2.

See:

embrutecerse

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verbo transitivo trabajo to stultify; televisión to make ... mindless

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= barbarise [barbarize, -USA], brutalise [brutalize, -USA].

Ex. The first option means fighting, the resistance brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.

Ex. The first option means fighting the resistance, brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.

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verbo transitivo trabajo to stultify; televisión to make ... mindless

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= barbarise [barbarize, -USA], brutalise [brutalize, -USA].

Ex: The first option means fighting, the resistance brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.

Ex: The first option means fighting the resistance, brutalizing, barbarizing and dehumanising both ourselves and our victims, and resulting, at best, in a desolate and desocialized state.

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embrutecer [E3 ]

vt

«trabajo» to stultify, dull; «televisión» to make … mindless, turn … into a vegetable (colloq)

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embrutecer (conjugate embrutecer) verbo transitivo [trabajo] to stultify;
[televisión] to make … mindless
embrutecer verbo transitivo to brutalize

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embrutecer

♦ vt

to stultify, to make dull;

la televisión embrutece a los niños television stunts children's mental development

♦ See also the pronominal verb embrutecerse

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embrutecer

v/t brutalize