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1. Treat brutally
   - brutalize
    
2. Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
   "Life in the camps had brutalised him"
   - brutalize, animalize, animalise [Brit]
    
3. Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
   - brutalize, animalize, animalise [Brit]

Derived forms: brutalises, brutalised, brutalising

See also: brutalisation [Brit]

Type of: alter, change, do by, handle, modify, treat