Brutal
Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.
Distraught and brutal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Distraught" instead an adjective "Brutal".
Distraught
Distraught adjective - Feeling overwhelming fear or worry.
Brutal and distraught are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Distraught".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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She was so distraught by the brutal death of her fiancé (who was so impatient to propose to her and give her a wedding ring he forgot to Look Both Ways, got hit by a car, and died in her arms), she took a lethal dose of sleeping pills under the Hirenzakura tree, the place where the two first met.
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