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| barbarize |
to become primitive or lapse into crudity, brutality, or the like. [1/4 definitions] |
| bestial |
like a beast, esp. in brutality or order of intelligence. |
| Black Lives Matter |
an early twenty-first century social and political movement that seeks to raise awareness of and put an end to unjust treatment of Black people, esp. that which occurs in the form of police brutality. |
| jackboot |
bullying brutality, esp. by a government or the military. [1/2 definitions] |
| jackbooted |
marked by bullying brutality, as police or military tactics against civilians. |
| pandour |
an eighteenth-century Croatian soldier noted for extreme brutality and cruelty. [1/2 definitions] |
| storm trooper |
a member of the German Nazi militia, noted for its brutality and violence; Brownshirt. |
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