brutalize

I heard that your fight back caused them to get more violent and brutalize you further.

They run the economy, own major industries, and brutalize their foes—and Khamenei almost never contradicts them.

His countenance showed marks of dissipation, for he was a heavy drinker, and this served to further brutalize his nature.

The cursings and obscenities that taint the air and brutalize life elsewhere, were in this quaint old settlement unknown.

Instead of softening his nature, this intelligence seemed only to harden and brutalize it.

Human nature is everywhere much the same: cruel spectacles brutalize, whether in Spain or on a negro-plantation.

It has a natural, an inevitable tendency to brutalize every noble faculty of man.