Past tense of brutify; made brutal or more brutal.
From brutify (to make brutal) + -ed (past tense suffix). Brutify is a rare variant of brutalize from the same Latin root.
This is an archaic past tense form that appears mostly in older texts—modern English has largely settled on 'brutalized' instead, but 'brutified' shows how English had variation in word formation.
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