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- verb UK Present participle of
brutalise .
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Examples
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"brutalising" ANC members in the Natal Midlands, congress regional executive member Rob Haswell alleged on Wednesday.
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The shadow of Iraq makes it harder to win the argument that both self-interest and our moral values demand a response when a dictator is brutalising his people on our doorstep.
Instead of fearing another Iraq, the west must do right by Libya | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Our stubborn tendency will not rest till we have made a society where the young don't turn to drugs for escape, where self-styled liberal democrats don't prop up brutalising ideologies out of vanity, and where irreversible changes make a better land.
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Pop's appeal doesn't just lie in its ability to shock and surprise; it can also be a source of safety and succour, especially when life – life under capitalism – feels concussive, brutalising.
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review 2011
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The ultras would step in whenever they see police forces brutalising people anywhere, whether from their own or not.
James Dorsey: Egypt Suspends Soccer Matches in Anticipation of Protest Anniversary Clashes James Dorsey 2012
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However, the deeper we allow ourselves to be sucked into quasi-imperial wars in Muslim lands, the more we almost compel those ordinary Muslims - distraught at the brutalising effect such conflicts occasion upon their countries - to take sides.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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As we ate dessert, a singer was brutalising "I Get a Kick Out of You".
Restaurant review: Brasserie Toulouse Lautrec Jay Rayner 2010
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SADC sided with Mugabe in insisting that the rival parties should share the vital cabinet portfolio of home affairs, which oversees the police, who have been accused of kidnapping and brutalising opposition supporters.
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* Again, because for Hattie and her fellow travellers, it has to be couched in simple nasty-oppressive-men-brutalising-poor-women terms.
Cruising on Punternet Alix Mortimer 2009
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Commons, Brown was asked by a backbench lawmaker to send a clear message to Mugabe "to stop brutalising legitimate opposition, to listen to the democratic will of that country and to go".
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