Brutality and Torture

Brutality

Brutality noun - Disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others.

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Torture and brutality are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Torture" instead a noun "Brutality".

Nearby Words: brutal, brutalize, brutally, brutalized

Torture noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.

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Brutality and torture are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutality" instead a noun "Torture".

Nearby Words: tortured, torturous, torturing, torturer

human	human brutality	human torture
physical	physical brutality	physical torture
pure	pure brutality	pure torture
sheer	sheer brutality	sheer torture
Other adjectives: brutal, actual, violent, massive, extreme, little, vicious, horrible, sexual, repeated, implied, pointless, outright, protracted, aforementioned, horrific.

The British Army's 14 Intelligence Company a.k.a 'the Det', an organisation against which accusations of torture and brutality up to and including murder were levelled by Irish republican groups...

Source: Secret Police
Instead of torture and brutality, it is most often just two men talking across a table, with the interrogator asking questions and making it clear to the prisoner that it's in their best interests to tell them what they want to know.

Source: Film / Act of Valor
He's a Blood Knight known for his cruelty and brutality, who enjoys torture, murder and rape, to the point he has the Fan Nickname "the Mountain that Rapes".

Source: Hate Sink / Literature

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