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1. Definition: 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

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1. Definition: 1. constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure"

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1. Definition: 1. severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"

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1. Definition: 1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;

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1. Definition: 1. make perfect or complete;

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1. Definition: 1. something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; "no mortal being can influence the absolute"

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1. Definition: 1. forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; "a critical point in the campaign"; "the critical test"

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1. Definition: 1. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

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1. Definition: 1. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights"

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1. Definition: 1. based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of the group into halves"

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1. Definition: 1. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"

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1. Definition: 1. an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy)

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1. Definition: 1. tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest"

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1. Definition: 1. rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner; "her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her"

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1. Definition: 1. free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

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1. Definition: 1. characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul"- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.

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1. Definition: 1. showing lack of care for consequences; "behaved like an irresponsible idiot"; "hasty and irresponsible action"

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