brutalized

past tense of brutalize

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Recent Examples of brutalized Brock Lesnar's Road to WrestleMania The Beast brutalized Cena this past Saturday night and defeated him with relative ease after hitting six consecutive F-5's. Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025 Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Gabe Kidd brutalized Ospreay, targeting the neck which he was set to have surgery on. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025 As her due date approached, she was brought to the infamous detention center Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (Navy School of Mechanics), known as ESMA, where prisoners were brutalized. Sam Gillette, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025 The Undertaker and Big Boss Man brutalized each other in a Hell in a Cell match. Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brutalized
Verb
  • By the time the cameras stopped clicking and the newsmen flew home, Kentucky had been humiliated in the national press, the onlooker’s violence both disputed and affirmed in accounts of this day.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • LaBella alleges that she was traumatized and humiliated by the experience.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • She had been abused as a child and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • For over a year, it was then used and abused for testing, much of it on Ferrari’s Fiorano track.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Donnelly, meanwhile, recalled on the witness stand how he was repeatedly drowned, tortured and raped by Gacy, per court documents.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In Elordi’s hands, the creature is a sensitive soul tortured by his own existence.
    Lindsey Bahr, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One of the jurors said deliberations were poisoned by a belief among some jurors that a member of the panel had been paid off by Weinstein or his lawyers.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • His family believed he had been poisoned by the spirit, according to the Tennessee State Museum.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • She’s being bullied at school due to the fact her psychic gifts that helped solve The Grabber case are no longer a secret.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement Enter Billy, played by Dacre Montgomery, a troubled California transplant who bullied his younger step-sister, Max, and her friends.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Brutalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brutalized. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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