(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:15:51

Bru"tal*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutalized (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing.] [Cf. F. brutaliser.]

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

 

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Bru"tal*ize, v. i.

To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.

[R.]

He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.

 

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