brutalized

Brutalized is the past tense of brutalize, which means to subject someone to cruel, violent, or degrading treatment.

A person who has been brutalized has suffered physical abuse or psychological trauma at the hands of others: The prisoners were brutalized by their captors.

The word can also describe being made brutal or insensitive through exposure to violence: soldiers brutalized by years of combat.

In British English, the spelling is typically brutalised.