Definition of "brutalised" [brutalised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of brutalise. (verb)

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• "After many years I had to abandon ship in disgust at the early smug pioneers of our new, all humane, all positive ethos that would usher in a new generation of youngsters filled with idealism, never having been 'brutalised' by horrible disciplinarians like myself."
• "And this is made worse by the fact that within an authoritarian society- and all societies in the world are still authoritarian to a very large degree- a life of duty and discipline, repression and rage is functionally adaptive to society, even if it inevitably creates the kind of brutalised spirit we see in our friend Jay here."
• "The attorney-general said such systems produced "brutalised" individuals who reoffended when released back into the community."