brutalize

Example Sentences

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Murray steps into a forehand and brutalises it down the line to earn a break point in the first game of the second set.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2015

Brute force has too many limits and usually brutalises those who use it, as well as those who succumb.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2014

But then he has been an Under-Waiter once himself, and suffering brutalises; however, he is outside the sphere of morality, and I could pardon him almost anything.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various

It rather brutalises, unless it becomes so great that it embraces all things.

From The Great Hunger by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)

They say sport brutalises us, and then they want to go and contaminate the labourer.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.