as in to humiliate
to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being
men who had been bestialized by war
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Trump World even humiliated Abe by letting it be known that Abe had nominated the U.S. leader for a Nobel Peace Prize.—
William Pesek,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025 -
The temptation for Russia to humiliate London and Paris - by breaking any ceasefire with an attack carried out hundreds of miles away from British and French troops stuck in the capital - could prove hard to resist.—
Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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His story of being put on a Kremlin kill list after exposing the Kremlin plot to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is told in Antidote, a documentary directed by James Jones that also premiered at CPH:DOX.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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That’s the cult whose members famously took their own life drinking poisoned Kool-Aid.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2025
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So then, consent has been manufactured in the media to dehumanize and discriminate against trans people.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2025
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The temptation to dehumanize our enemies and label them as animals or insects aids to justify further violence.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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He was physically and mentally brutalized by a sociopathic father.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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Those who have been brutalized shall brutalize others in turn.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Bestialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bestialize. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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