brutalize
verb (used with object)
to make brutal.
was brutalizing
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past progressiveof brutalize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In an interview with the New York Times, he said he hopes the Revolutionary Guard will simply “surrender” to the opposition forces it was brutalizing only a month ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
This was while Sherman was brutalizing South Carolina.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2020
They felt that it was brutalizing his very soul, and becoming a millstone around their necks which must drag them down to some unknown abyss of infamy.
From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe
