brutalizing

present participle of brutalize

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Recent Examples of brutalizing Lesnar, who returned with a violent message on SmackDown, made his intentions clear by brutalizing Cena and issuing the challenge. Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brutalizing
Verb
  • Some of these deportation efforts have been purposefully dehumanizing, like the opening of Alligator Alcatraz.
    William D. Lopez, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The oversimplification of a complex developmental difference that exists on a spectrum of many different abilities and experiences is dehumanizing at best and dangerous at its worst, autism experts, advocacy groups and members of the community told USA TODAY.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Last year, Cindy Clemishire, 55, accused Morris of abusing her at the age of 12.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Cardi responded in kind, speculating whether or not Minaj was abusing substances, and insinuating that Minaj’s substance use has affected her children’s health.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This announcement, humiliating the involved member, is harmful.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • More than 3,000 Hamas fighters gunned down civilians, torturing and mutilating some of them in their own homes, still in their pajamas.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The trailer presents the Jimmies as a downright terrifying clan, showing them violating and torturing other survivors.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Krishna discovers that Kaliya is living beneath the surface of a local pond and poisoning its waters with his venom.
    Seamus Sullivan September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Authorities said Boytsov is also accused of poisoning his wife, who is one of the deceased, with the alcohol.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Now he's accused the Indianapolis Democrat of bullying and threatening him.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Myran offered a history of bullying as an example.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Brutalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brutalizing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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