Brutal and Locked in

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Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Locked in and brutal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Locked in" instead an adjective "Brutal".

Nearby Words: brutish, brute, brutalize, brutality, brutally

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Brutal and locked in are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Locked in".

He's actually gone so far as to neglect all of the angels, ignoring them as they fight and kill themselves in civil war, and evidently not caring that one of his Archangels is dead, two of them are locked in a cage in Hell, and the last is trying to take control of Heaven through brutal force.

Source: Parental Neglect
In the backstory of The Belgariad, Arendia spent many centuries locked in a brutal three-way civil war between the duchies of Mimbre, Asturia, and Wacune.

Source: Allowed Internal War
Certainly, on the surface it sounds amusing: He has delusions of having a six-foot grey squirrel as a friend, and that grey and red squirrels are locked in a brutal conflict.

Source: Series / Doc Martin

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