brutalize
verb (used with object)
to make brutal.
had brutalized
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past perfectof brutalize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He identified by name the White people who had brutalized him, and for that reason, along with the mere act of publishing his story, Douglass had to flee the United States to avoid being murdered.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Yes, it’s important to remember his legacy of reconciliation, and love, toward white South Africans who had brutalized him.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2013
They could no longer invoke the aid of the Inquisition in oppressing and trampling on the people, whom their wantonness, and the wantonness of others like them, had brutalized.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
Long-continued wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had brutalized him, etc.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
