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• brutal — brutal, brute, brutish, bestial, beastly, feral are not close synonyms, though all suggest a likeness to or the nature of a lower animal and all, especially as applied to persons, tend to express strong derogation. Brutal is almost exclusively… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• beating — beat|ing [ˈbi:tıŋ] n 1.) an act of hitting someone many times as a punishment or in a fight ▪ a brutal beating 2.) take a beating to lose very badly in a game or competition ▪ The Dodgers took a real beating on Saturday. →take some beating at… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• beating — n. 1) to give smb. a beating 2) to get, take a beating 3) a brutal, good, merciless, severe, vicious beating (he got a good beating) * * * [ biːtɪŋ] good merciless severe vicious beating (he got a good beating) a brutal …   Combinatory dictionary

• beating — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ brutal, savage, severe, terrible, vicious VERB + BEATING ▪ get, receive, suffer …   Collocations dictionary

• brutal — adj. Brutal is used with these nouns: ↑assault, ↑attack, ↑beating, ↑conflict, ↑crime, ↑death, ↑dictatorship, ↑exploitation, ↑fight, ↑honesty, ↑killer, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

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