Abused
Abused adjective - Subjected to cruel treatment.
Brutalized and abused are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Brutalized" instead a verb "Abused".
Brutalized
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Revy is a Chinese-American who was abused by her alcoholic father (whom she later murdered) and brutalized by the police for laughs.
Source: Dark and Troubled Past -
Baron takes Simon under his wing to aid him in his official, and later, private work.This film has examples of: Bedlam House: The state asylum, where patients are brutalized for fun by the orderlies and are sexually abused by its director when Baron Frankenstein isn't overseeing things.
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