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# brutality

«brutality» in Mova's school dictionary: **Cruel, violent treatment of people or animals; very harsh…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (brutalities)

### meaning for a pupil

Cruel, violent treatment of people or animals; very harsh behaviour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brutality/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the cruel force used by villains or beasts in a tale

### examples

- When men turn to brutes, their brutality grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brutality/#x1)
- The king's brutality made the people afraid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brutality/#x2)
- We were shocked by the brutality of the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brutality/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brutality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brutality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.