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

“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

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

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

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Frugality, in fact, softens character, in animals as in men; gross feeding brutalizes it.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Now, then, you will understand what I meant by saying that our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by William Savage Johnson

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

Do we want them to leave prison alienated, brutalized, stigmatized and lacking in employable skills?

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2023

“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

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2021

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