brutalize

Whether or not he decides to appear at the trial, scheduled to begin later this year, the A.G. can use his videoed deposition testimony to brutalize him the same way Carroll’s lawyers did.

From Slate ● May 11, 2023

Specifically, a few decades of drought pushed the Huns to the brink, forcing them to brutalize others in pursuit of survival.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022

“A White House job is not a promise of an unlimited prerogative to brutalize someone who was a victim of a prior attack,” attorney Joshua Matz said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Let us hope that Taliban leaders mean it when they say they will not brutalize the population as they did before.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2021

The weight of the sand began to brutalize her shoulders.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging.

From Time Magazine Archive

All punishment which is not tempered with forgiveness is brutal; and brutalizes both punisher and punished.

From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt

That hardens people, and brutalizes them, but somehow we mostly admire them and applaud them for their success against odds.

From The Quality of Mercy by Howells, William Dean

You must remember that such toil brutalizes a man; it makes him callous, selfish, unfeeling necessarily.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

A sophist is a forger, and this forger sometimes brutalizes good sense.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

This is not the first time I have encountered a situation where the hapless staff find themselves brutalized by loud, idiotic, or culturally discordant music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

This is about as much of a review of “All’s Fair” worth venturing at this point, since pretty much every critic has brutalized the show.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

When, in the mid-20th century, President Dwight Eisenhower’s “mighty network of highways” spread its tentacles across the landscape, it brutalized nature.

From Slate ● May 25, 2024

“There is a remarkable similarity to the brutalized community that makes ‘Grimes’ work.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

“Please, Gus. Not another word. Even my brutalized spirit has some sensitivity left. I can’t let you slander my girls like that.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Los Angeles built off the momentum, brutalizing Arizona with eight straight designed runs to start off a 75-yard touchdown drive to open the third quarter.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

Not, how do we ensure that the police are not brutalizing the Black community?

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2021

This was while Sherman was brutalizing South Carolina.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2020

Three thousand children crowded into this ugly brutalizing school that had facilities for only one thousand.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith