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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
brutify .
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Examples
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The Siege opens with a discussion of plain-speaking between Walter Baurchel, who takes pride in always practicing it, and his brother the Baron Baurchel, who finds that practice “savage,” “brutified,” and unsuitable in “civilized Europe” (1.1.227).
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Ivan, indulging in sensual pleasures, became more and more brutified; and Clotilda, yielding up her soul to the dominion of pride, hatred, and violence, became so embittered against her unfortunate husband that she compassed his death by violence, and seized the crown, reigning in the name of her infant son,
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins
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'Bah!' said the sailor; 'when you have buffeted as many of the storms of life as I have, you will learn that gratitude is rarely found on earth -- least of all in such a brutified nature as that fellow's.
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But tears and prayers were unavailing; all of man he had ever had in his nature was now brutified by strong drink; as well might she have knelt to the tiger thirsting for blood, as to him.
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Emily Mayer Higgins
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Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified!
Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902
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On the other hand the Negro debased and brutified by a servitude of centuries, has no comprehension or desire for home in any exalted sense.
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Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified!
Nathaniel Hawthorne George Edward Woodberry 1892
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But you must not think, Pierre, that I am completely brutified by belief.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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'Why do you stop at the School if you think you are being brutified there?
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
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But you must not think, Pierre, that I am completely brutified by belief.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871
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