brutal attack

collocation in English

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brutal
adjective
uk
/ˈbruː.təl/us
/ˈbruː.t̬əl/
cruel, violent, and completely ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition ofbrutalandattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They were subjected to an unprovoked andbrutalattackby a tyrant but did not strike back.
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I understand that almost the invariable punishment in prisons for striking or for abrutalattackupon a warder is flogging.
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Now we have had this vicious,brutalattackon his wife.
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Is not their decision abrutalattackon the poor?
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She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and suffered a fairlybrutalattack.
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It is worse than abrutalattackon the body.
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Was he not to be punished for so cowardly andbrutalattackupon an old man?
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We were all horrified by thebrutalattackon him and wish him full recovery.
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Thebrutalattackon the islands ordered by the former military regime caused a fundamental and very sad rupture of the good relations that had existed between our two countries.
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Security forces attacked the protest and as a result of thebrutalattack8 students got permanently paralyzed while hundreds got injured.
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This savage andbrutalattackwas completely unprovoked.
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The next morning, they discover that anotherbrutalattackhas occurred overnight on a local farm.
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This was abrutalattack.
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According to reports, they have committed brutal attacks on elderly and old people, who seem more and more to be the victims.
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She has suffered considerable anxiety, fear and brutal attacks over the past 12 months.
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