brutality

bru·tal·i·ty

B0517500 (bro͞o-tăl′ĭ-tē)n. pl. bru·tal·i·ties 1. The state or quality of being ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting.2. A ruthless, cruel, harsh, or unrelenting act.

bru•tal•i•ty

(bruˈtæl ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties. 1. the quality of being brutal; cruelty; savagery. 2. a brutal act or practice. [1540–50]

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Noun	1.	brutality - the trait of extreme crueltyferociousness, viciousness, savagerycruelness, cruelty, harshness - the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance
	2.	brutality - a brutal barbarous savage act barbarism, barbarity, savageryatrocity, inhumanity - an act of atrocious cruelty

brutality

noun cruelty, atrocity, ferocity, savagery, ruthlessness, barbarism, inhumanity, barbarity, viciousness, brutishness, bloodthirstiness, savageness Her experience of men was of domination and brutality.

brutality

nounA cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior:barbarity, bestiality, cruelty, inhumanity, savagery, truculence, truculency.

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残忍

brute

(bruːt) noun1. an animal other than man. My dog died yesterday, the poor brute; (also adjective) brute force.畜生2. a cruel person. 残忍的人ˈbrutal adjective very cruel or severe. a brutal beating.残忍的bruˈtality (-ˈtӕ-) noun残忍ˈbrutish adjective of, or like, a brute. brutish manners. 畜生般的，野蛮的

Brutality

See also Cruelty, Mutilation.Black Princeangered by Limoges’ resistance, massacred three hundred inhabitants (1370). [Eur. Hist.: Bishop, 75]CaracallaRoman emperor (211–217) massacred many thousands [Rom. Hist.: EB (1963) IV, 825]Cenci, Counthe delighted in making people suffer. [Br. Lit.: “The Cenci” in Magill I, 131–133]Crowna stevedore who deals with people by physical force. [Am. Lit.: Porgy, Magill I, 764–766]Drancyconcentration camp; France’s largest Jewish deportation center. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 161]Eichmann, Adolph(1906–1962) Nazi SS officer; directed “Final Solution” in Europe. [Jew. Hist.: Wigoder, 167]Enlilordered wholesale destruction of humanity by flood. [Babylonian Myth.: Gilgamesh]GestapoGerman secret police under Nazi regime. [Ger. History: RHD, 595]Grimes, Peterfisherman suspected of ill-treating his apprentices. [Br. Opera: Peter Grimes in Osborne Opera, 240]Herod Antipaspresents John the Baptist’s head to Salome. [N.T.: Mark 6:17–28]Himmler, Heinrich(1900–1945) architect of the “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler]Hitler, Adolf(1889–1945) Nazi dictator; architect of “Final Solution” to exterminate Jews. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler]Jaeldrove tent-peg through skull of Sisera. [O.T.: Judges 4:19–21]Koch, Ilse“Bitch of Buchenwald”; had inmates skinned for lampshades (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 1280]Kramer, Josef“Beast of Belsen”; camp exterminator (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 878]Mengele, Dr. JosephAuschwitz concentration camp doctor; experimented on inmates (WWII). [Ger. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 83]NaziJew-baiting, murderous Aryan supremacist under Hitler. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer]Nerocoarse, conceited, brutal emperor of Rome (37–68). [Polish Lit.: Quo Vadis, Magill I, 797–799]Procrustesrobber; stretches or amputates limbs of victims to fit his bed. [Class. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221]Reign of Terrorall roads led to the guillotine (1793–1794). [Fr. Hist.: EB, IX: 904]S.S.ruthless corps implemented Nazi atrocities. [Germ. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary]SAVAKIranian secret police [Iranian History: Facts (1979), 125]St. Evremonde, Marquisruthless aristocrat deliberately killed two people and ran over a child. [Br. Lit.: Dickens A Tale of Two Cities]

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noun cruelty

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noun a cruel act or an instance of cruel behavior

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noun the trait of extreme cruelty

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noun a brutal barbarous savage act

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