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

The Conversation asked Rashad Shabazz, a geographer and scholar of African American studies at Arizona State University, to explore the societal conditions in which Black police officers could brutalize another Black man.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“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

“It will consume government. It will brutalize people. It will cost taxpayers millions of dollars,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 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

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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

It unfailingly changes the expression; frequently, it degrades and brutalizes the face.

From The Winning Clue by James Hay

And cold, cold day and night, cold that brutalizes, that degenerates you till you would sell your soul, your mother's soul to be warm again.

From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield

It brutalizes the men and prevents the growth of feminine qualities, coyness among others.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

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

And while the Cavs blitzed the Lakers from three early, it was their transition and interior defense that ended up getting most brutalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

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

“Malcolm X’s decision to enter the mainstream of the straggle heralds a hopeful sign on the sickeningly dismal scene of brutalized, non-violent, passive resistance. ...”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

In a few seconds the CrossWave had squirted to its top speed of 55 mph and was skipping across the gentle swells in a blaring, brutalizing ecstasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Dahlia Lithwick: These were incredibly consequential gut punches, two more in a long sequence of brutalizing cases.

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

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