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brutalize

verb as in corrupt

verb as in abuse

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“The callousness and calculation involved in this murder was designed to brutalize their victim until his very last breath while striking fear in everyone who witnessed it.”

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Up to and including his high school graduation, Cam was brutalized by his classmates, who found him to be easy pickings.

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Those videos are sadly just a drop in the toxic river of posts showing immigration agents brutalizing migrants and citizens alike that long ago drowned out almost anything else on my social media feeds.

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She had been sitting at her desk when her supervisor handed her a letter from an inmate alleging jailers were brutalizing people in their custody.

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Earlier this year, Israeli settlers brutalized another member of the Oscar-winning “No Other Land” team.

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