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

Let us hope that Taliban leaders mean it when they say they will not brutalize the population as they did before.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 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

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

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

It is not the Creator who so brutalizes lives and emotions.

From Highland Ballad by Christopher Leadem

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

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

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

Mr. Trump complained about the charges against him and then about his own lawyers, whom he verbally brutalized privately throughout the trial.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2024

“Please, Gus. Not another word. Even my brutalized spirit has some sensitivity left. I can’t let you slander my girls like that.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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 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

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

In Philipps’s meticulously assembled and brilliantly written account, he is not a warrior driven mad by the stress of combat, a good guy gone rogue or a victim of a brutalizing culture.

From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 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