"act of brutalizing; state of being brutalized;" 1797, noun of action or state from brutalize.
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brutalize v.
"make coarse, gross, or inhuman, lower to the level of a brute," 1740, from brutal + -ize. Related: Brutalized; brutalizing. An earlier verb was brutify (1660s), from French brutifier. Related: Brutification.