To make brutal or more brutal in nature; to cause to become beast-like or savage.
From brute + -ify (suffix meaning to make). An archaic variant of brutalize, from the same Latinate morphological family.
Though rarely used today, 'brutify' shows English's love of multiple word formations—both 'brutalize' and 'brutify' meant the same thing, but brutalize won out in modern usage.
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