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To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

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  1. v. t. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
  2. v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty.
  3. v. treat brutally
  4. v. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
  5. v. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
  6. To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.] He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison.
  7. v:100 v. treat brutally v. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman v. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling