bestialize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bestialize
Verb
  • There was a period when Broadway creators thought the only way to get a performance was to humiliate a person.
    Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • An investigation of at least eight fraternities found that members humiliated students through means like beating them with paddles or forcing potential recruits to eat live fish and drink urine, according to court filings.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Morgan was previously married to Keith Whitley from 1986 to his alcohol poisoning death in 1989 at age 34.
    Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Scores of sea lions and dolphins have been fatally poisoned in recent months by domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by harmful algal blooms.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Empathy disappears, justice is dismissed, and the people who live in the land are dehumanized.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • School staff wouldn't face punishment For using students' incorrect pronouns under bill Another Iowa student, 14-year-old Berry Stevens, who uses they/them pronouns, said the bill allowed adults and students in schools to go out of their way to dehumanize others.
    Sabine Martin, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Images of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators being tear-gassed, shot, and otherwise brutalized spread around the globe.
    Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • That morning, Laken was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized and horrifically murdered.
    NPR, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Bestialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestialize. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.

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