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  • verb Present participle of brutalize.

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Examples

  • I guess that kind of brutalizing is not exactly the antonym of "aggressive," but I don't think I would have wanted to have been in range of being an inspiration for one of her books.

    "Why Women Aren't Funny." Ann Althouse 2006

  • Very simply, it is about murdering and brutalizing Nazis.

    Movie Reviews: Whiteout the Inglourious Lying | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • Is anyone surprised that China, whose president was recently given only the second state dinner of the Obama presidency and who is currently brutalizing reigning winner of the Nobel peace prize, is also opposing the use of force against Gaddafi in Libya?

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christian Love and the Obligation to Hate Evil Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • You believe half of what he says and, as inhabited by Woody Harrelson, all of what he is: A misanthropic street cop in 1999 Los Angeles who is smoking, drinking and not-eating himself to death, brutalizing suspects and, thanks to others just like him, watching the sun set on his special brand of community policing.

    'Safe House': Familiar Blueprint, Despite Denzel John Anderson 2012

  • But my biggest fear is this: in the event of a future attack on the United States, another president will feel tempted, or even politically compelled, to resort to the same brutalizing policy, with the same polarizing, demoralizing, war-crippling results.

    Dear President Bush, 2009

  • It means that liberals were right that the lies told to get us into Iraq were used because there was no actual justification for brutalizing the Iraqi people.

    Matthew Yglesias » Death at Gitmo 2010

  • Grant was drawn to Johnson when Johnson was chief prosecutor because he challenged a police department with a reputation for brutalizing suspects.

    Loyalists of Prince George's Jack Johnson feeling betrayed 2011

  • "We cannot have officers brutalizing the public," Weis said.

    Jody Weis Speaks Out: 'I Pride Myself On Being The Enemy Of The Status Quo' The Huffington Post 2011

  • Grant was drawn to Johnson when Johnson was chief prosecutor because he challenged a police department with a reputation for brutalizing suspects.

    Loyalists of Prince George's Jack Johnson feeling betrayed 2011

  • But my biggest fear is this: in the event of a future attack on the United States, another president will feel tempted, or even politically compelled, to resort to the same brutalizing policy, with the same polarizing, demoralizing, war-crippling results.

    Dear President Bush, 2009

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