brutalize
Example Sentences
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Do we want them to leave prison alienated, brutalized, stigmatized and lacking in employable skills?
From New York Times
For some patients, like a civilian who lost his arm in the brutalized town of Bucha, even that felt too long.
From New York Times
“He has a clear plan right now to brutalize Ukraine. But to what end?”
From New York Times
He probably has the power to call off Putin’s brutalizing of Ukraine — but only if he intervenes forcefully.
From Washington Post
For more than 20 years, the Taliban has systematically terrorized, brutalized, maimed and murdered its own people.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
