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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of brutalize.

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Examples

  • Thad Levine, the assistant general manager of the Texas Rangers, says that Mr. Szasz "brutalized" a couple of former Rangers players.

    The Happy Heckler Can't Be Heard 2008

  • Terror and repression were the order of the day, with ever a growing unrest in the higher circles, while the native population at large seemed to be completely cowed -- "brutalized" is the term repeatedly used by Rizal in his political essays.

    The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • In fact, he says he's been "brutalized" by the TTC.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • Maybe it's just semantics, but Israeli society has not been "brutalized" by the occupation.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • "The Prodigy" brutalized "Rush" for much of the first round, but then he stormed back and hung on in the final two frames to get the winning nod.

    UFC blog for UFC news, results, videos, rumors, fights, pics and tickets -- MMAmania.com 2009

  • I am hearing more and more that Michael Jackson's dad "brutalized" MJ.

    Knowledge is Power 2009

  • McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks.

    MPNnow Home RSS 2008

  • McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks.

    MPNnow Home RSS 2008

  • At its center are two sistersEri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary reading at an anonymous Denny’s toward people whose lives are radically alien to her own: a jazz trombonist who claims they’ve met before, a burly female “love hotel” manager and her maid staff, and a Chinese prostitute savagely brutalized by a businessman.

    After Dark by Haruki Murakami: Book summary 2010

  • Throughout the conflict women have been brutalized by rape and sexual violence.

    Global Voices in English » DRC: Rape Epidemic Fuels Fistula Cases 2009

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