"atrocity" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /əˈtɹɒsɪti/ Audio: en-us-atrocity.ogg [US] Forms: atrocities [plural]
enPR: ə-trŏs'ĭ-tē Rhymes: -ɒsɪti Etymology: From Middle French atrocité, from Latin atrox (“terrible, cruel”), from āter (“matte black”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|atrocité}} Middle French atrocité, {{uder|en|la|atrox||terrible, cruel}} Latin atrox (“terrible, cruel”), {{m|la|āter||matte black}} āter (“matte black”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} atrocity (countable and uncountable, plural atrocities)
  1. (countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice. Tags: countable Translations (extremely cruel act): mizori [feminine] (Albanian), بِشَاعَة (bišāʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), قَسْوَة (qaswa) [feminine] (Arabic), դաժանություն (dažanutʻyun) (Armenian), գազանություն (gazanutʻyun) (Armenian), atrocidá [feminine] (Asturian), vəhşilik (Azerbaijani), zalımlıq (Azerbaijani), ankerkeria (Basque), basatikeria (Basque), ліхадзе́йства (lixadzjéjstva) [neuter] (Belarusian), зве́рства (zvjérstva) [neuter] (Belarusian), жо́рсткасць (žórstkascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), зве́рство (zvérstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), жесто́кост (žestókost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), atrocitat [feminine] (Catalan), 暴行 (bàoxíng) (Chinese Mandarin), 殘酷 (Chinese Mandarin), 残酷 (cánkù) (Chinese Mandarin), zvěrstvo [neuter] (Czech), krutost [feminine] (Czech), sveřepost [feminine] (Czech), brutalita [feminine] (Czech), grusomhed [common-gender] (Danish), wreedheid [feminine] (Dutch), gruweldaad [feminine] (Dutch), julmus (Estonian), jõhkrus (Estonian), grimd [feminine] (Faroese), julmuus (Finnish), hirmuteko (Finnish), atrocité [feminine] (French), atrocidade [feminine] (Galician), სისასტიკე (sisasṭiḳe) (Georgian), Grausamkeit [feminine] (German), Gräueltat [feminine] (German), Abscheulichkeit [feminine] (German), Barbarei [feminine] (German), Brutalität [feminine] (German), Atrozität [feminine] (German), θηριωδία (thiriodía) [feminine] (Greek), ωμότητα (omótita) [feminine] (Greek), βαρβαρότητα (varvarótita) [feminine] (Greek), אַכְזָרִיּוּת (akhzariút) [feminine] (Hebrew), क्रूरता (krūrtā) [feminine] (Hindi), नृशंसता (nŕśanstā) [feminine] (Hindi), निर्दयता (nirdaytā) [feminine] (Hindi), atrocitás (Hungarian), rémtett (Hungarian), ainghníomh [masculine] (Irish), gníomh uafásach [masculine] (Irish), atrocità [masculine] (Italian), 残虐行為 (zangyaku kōi) (alt: ざんぎゃくこうい) (Japanese), 残虐 (zangyaku) (alt: ざんぎゃく) (Japanese), 惨酷 (zankoku) (alt: ざんこく) (Japanese), 残忍 (zannin) (alt: ざんにん) (Japanese), 非道 (hidō) (alt: ひどう) (Japanese), айуандық (aiuandyq) (Kazakh), мейірімсіздік (meiırımsızdık) (Kazakh), хайуандық (xaiuandyq) (Kazakh), 극악 (geugak) (alt: 極惡) (Korean), 비도 (bido) (alt: 非道) (Korean), 잔혹 행위 (janhok haeng'wi) (alt: 殘酷行爲) (Korean), жырткычтык (jırtkıctık) (Kyrgyz), ырайымсыздык (ırayımsızdık) (Kyrgyz), atrocitas [feminine] (Latin), zvērība [feminine] (Latvian), žvėriškumas [masculine] (Lithuanian), ѕверство (dzverstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), жестокост (žestokost) [feminine] (Macedonian), tūkinotanga (Maori), grusomhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), سبعیت (sabo'iyat) (Persian), وحشیگری (vahšigari) (Persian), okrucieństwo [neuter] (Polish), atrocidade [feminine] (Portuguese), atrocitate [feminine] (Romanian), злодея́ние (zlodejánije) [neuter] (Russian), зве́рство (zvérstvo) [neuter] (Russian), жесто́кость (žestókostʹ) (english: cruelty) [feminine] (Russian), atrotzidade [Logudorese] (Sardinian), atrotzidai (Sassarese), buirbe [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), aingidheachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), uabhas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), свѝрепо̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), звѐрство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), звјѐрство [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), кру́то̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), svìrepōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zvèrstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), zvjèrstvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), krútōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zverstvo [neuter] (Slovak), krutosť [feminine] (Slovak), ukrutnosť [feminine] (Slovak), brutalita [feminine] (Slovak), brutálnosť [feminine] (Slovak), grozodejstvo [neuter] (Slovene), krutost [feminine] (Slovene), atrocidad [feminine] (Spanish), grymhet [common-gender] (Swedish), skändlighet [common-gender] (Swedish), ohygglighet [common-gender] (Swedish), gawaing may sukdulang pagpapahirap (Tagalog), ваҳшигарӣ (vahšigarī) (Tajik), ваҳшоният (vahšoniyat) (Tajik), ఘోరం (ghōraṁ) (Telugu), atrosite (Turkish), лиході́йство (lyxodíjstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), злодія́ння (zlodijánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), зві́рство (zvírstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), жорсто́кість (žorstókistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), vahshiylik (Uzbek), zolimlik (Uzbek), sự tàn ác (Vietnamese), sự tàn bạo (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-atrocity-en-noun-UXEcRXtB Disambiguation of 'extremely cruel act': 74 8 18
  2. (uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: atrociousness, brutality, heinousness
    Sense id: en-atrocity-en-noun-65DCfNor Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ity, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 61 17 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 27 52 21 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 20 63 17 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 17 69 14
  3. (countable) An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable. Tags: countable Synonyms: abomination
    Sense id: en-atrocity-en-noun-DWhQiiu~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: atrocious, crime against humanity, war crime

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          "ref": "1662, William Pynchon, The Covenant of Nature Made with Adam, London, Chapter 11, Section 3, p. 277",
          "text": "[…] it seemed an atrocity or cruelty to Narses a good General, to take punishment of innoxious Hostages:",
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          "ref": "1795, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, Letter 4, p. 61",
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          "ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, page 87",
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          "text": "The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled.",
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          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "sisasṭiḳe",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "word": "სისასტიკე"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Grausamkeit"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Gräueltat"
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          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Abscheulichkeit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Barbarei"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Brutalität"
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          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "Atrozität"
        },
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "thiriodía",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "θηριωδία"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "omótita",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ωμότητα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "varvarótita",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "βαρβαρότητα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "note": "פשע נגד האנושות (pesha neged haenosut, literally “crime against humanity”)",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "akhzariút",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "אַכְזָרִיּוּת"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "krūrtā",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "क्रूरता"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "nŕśanstā",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "नृशंसता"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "nirdaytā",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "निर्दयता"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "word": "atrocitás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "word": "rémtett"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ainghníomh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "74 8 18",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "extremely cruel act",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gníomh uafásach"
        },
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          "ref": "1662, William Pynchon, The Covenant of Nature Made with Adam, London, Chapter 11, Section 3, p. 277",
          "text": "[…] it seemed an atrocity or cruelty to Narses a good General, to take punishment of innoxious Hostages:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1795, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, Letter 4, p. 61",
          "text": "It was impossible for the convention to suffer the crimes they had committed, and the still greater atrocities which they had meditated, to pass unnoticed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, page 87",
          "text": "“Any delay in arresting the assassin,” I observed, “might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943, Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security",
          "text": "The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cruel",
          "cruel"
        ],
        [
          "horrid",
          "horrid"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1553, John Bradford, letter, in Miles Coverdale (ed.), Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters, London: John Day, 1564, pp. 481-482,\nThys wil I muse on, & way with my self, [tha]t I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to [th]e lord Christ my Sauiour,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, London: A. Millar, Part 1, Section 3, Chapter 4, p. 81",
          "text": "What character is so detestable as that of one who takes pleasure to sow dissention among friends, and to turn their most tender love into mortal hatred? Yet wherein does the atrocity of this so much abhorred injury consist? […] It is in depriving them of that friendship itself, in robbing them of each others affections […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843, William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, New York: Harper, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 8, p. 284",
          "text": "an apology devised after the commission of the deed, to cover up its atrocity",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York: Harper, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 119",
          "text": "Hernandez […] had been an inoffensive, small ranchero, kidnapped with circumstances of peculiar atrocity from his home during one of the civil wars, and forced to serve in the army.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty."
      ],
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        [
          "atrocious",
          "atrocious"
        ],
        [
          "criminality",
          "criminality"
        ],
        [
          "cruelty",
          "cruelty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "atrociousness"
        },
        {
          "word": "brutality"
        },
        {
          "word": "heinousness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1924, Edna Ferber, chapter 7, in So Big, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, page 114",
          "text": "The Pools had given them a “hanging lamp,” coveted by the farmer’s wife; a hideous atrocity in yellow, with pink roses on its shade and prisms dangling and tinkling all around the edge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable."
      ],
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        [
          "unattractive",
          "unattractive"
        ],
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "abomination"
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      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/əˈtɹɒsɪti/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɒsɪti"
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      "enpr": "ə-trŏs'ĭ-tē"
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mizori"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "bišāʕa",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "بِشَاعَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qaswa",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "قَسْوَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "dažanutʻyun",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "դաժանություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "gazanutʻyun",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "գազանություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocidá"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "vəhşilik"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "zalımlıq"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "ankerkeria"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "basatikeria"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "lixadzjéjstva",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ліхадзе́йства"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "zvjérstva",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зве́рства"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "žórstkascʹ",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жо́рсткасць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zvérstvo",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зве́рство"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "žestókost",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жесто́кост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bàoxíng",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "暴行"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "殘酷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "cánkù",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "残酷"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zvěrstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "krutost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sveřepost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brutalita"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grusomhed"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wreedheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gruweldaad"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "julmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "jõhkrus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grimd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "julmuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "hirmuteko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sisasṭiḳe",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "სისასტიკე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Grausamkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Gräueltat"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Abscheulichkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Barbarei"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Brutalität"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Atrozität"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "thiriodía",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "θηριωδία"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "omótita",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ωμότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "varvarótita",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "βαρβαρότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "note": "פשע נגד האנושות (pesha neged haenosut, literally “crime against humanity”)",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "akhzariút",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "אַכְזָרִיּוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "krūrtā",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "क्रूरता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "nŕśanstā",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "नृशंसता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "nirdaytā",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "निर्दयता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "atrocitás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "rémtett"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ainghníomh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gníomh uafásach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocità"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ざんぎゃくこうい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zangyaku kōi",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "残虐行為"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ざんぎゃく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zangyaku",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "残虐"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ざんこく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zankoku",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "惨酷"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ざんにん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zannin",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "残忍"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ひどう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hidō",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "非道"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "aiuandyq",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "айуандық"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "meiırımsızdık",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "мейірімсіздік"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "xaiuandyq",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "хайуандық"
    },
    {
      "alt": "極惡",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geugak",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "극악"
    },
    {
      "alt": "非道",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bido",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "비도"
    },
    {
      "alt": "殘酷行爲",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "janhok haeng'wi",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "잔혹 행위"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "jırtkıctık",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "жырткычтык"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "ırayımsızdık",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "ырайымсыздык"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocitas"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zvērība"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "žvėriškumas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "dzverstvo",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ѕверство"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "žestokost",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жестокост"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "tūkinotanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grusomhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sabo'iyat",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "سبعیت"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "vahšigari",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "وحشیگری"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "okrucieństwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zlodejánije",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "злодея́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zvérstvo",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зве́рство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "cruelty",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "žestókostʹ",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жесто́кость"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Logudorese"
      ],
      "word": "atrotzidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "sdc",
      "lang": "Sassarese",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "atrotzidai"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "buirbe"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "aingidheachd"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uabhas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "свѝрепо̄ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "звѐрство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "звјѐрство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кру́то̄ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "svìrepōst"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zvèrstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zvjèrstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "krútōst"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "zverstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "krutosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ukrutnosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brutalita"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brutálnosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "grozodejstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "krutost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "atrocidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grymhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skändlighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ohygglighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "gawaing may sukdulang pagpapahirap"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "vahšigarī",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "ваҳшигарӣ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "vahšoniyat",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "ваҳшоният"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ghōraṁ",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "ఘోరం"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "atrosite"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lyxodíjstvo",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "лиході́йство"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zlodijánnja",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "злодія́ння"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zvírstvo",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зві́рство"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "žorstókistʹ",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "жорсто́кість"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "vahshiylik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "zolimlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "sự tàn ác"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "extremely cruel act",
      "word": "sự tàn bạo"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "atrocity"
  ],
  "word": "atrocity"
}

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