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

He said the new commissioner should also commit to firing police officers who “abuse, harass, brutalize, and kill” and promote transparency by releasing more disciplinary records.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

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

From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

“Oliver Twist” exposes, on every page, the hypocrisy of those who brutalize vulnerable children and claim to be virtuous in the process.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2018

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

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

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

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

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

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

In the kitchen, she hacked at a chunk of ham with a knife and brutalized an onion.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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

While Roger Federer is depicted as James Bond, in a tux, elegant and wrinkle-free, Nadal is called Rambo, ripped and relentless, brutalizing the ball and opponents alike.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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

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