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        "From Middle English cruel, borrowed from Old French cruel, from Latin crūdēlis (“hard, severe, cruel”), akin to crūdus (“raw, crude”); see crude.",
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              "mean": "Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless.\nThe supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.\nSynonym: sadistic\nAntonym: merciful"
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              "mean": "Harsh; severe.\n\nSynonym: brutal"
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            {
              "mean": "(slang) Cool; awesome; neat."
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              "mean": "(nonstandard) To a great degree; terribly.\n1913,  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  The Poison Belt‎:\"But I've served 'im ten years, and I'm fond of 'im, and, mind you, 'e's a great man, when all's said an' done, and it's an honor to serve 'im. But 'e does try one cruel at times.\"\n2016,  Kerry Greenwood,  Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 219:'I've never got arthritis, though my old dad had it something cruel.'"
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              "mean": "(chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)\n1937, Vance Palmer, Legend for Sanderson, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, p. 226, \nWhat cruelled him was that Imperial Hotel contract.\n2014, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 April, 2014, \nHe was on the fringes of Test selection last year before a shoulder injury cruelled his chances.\n2015, The Age, 8 September, 2015, \nA shortage of berth space for mega container ships will restrict capacity at Melbourne's port, cruelling Labor's attempts to get maximum value from its privatisation, a leading shipping expert has warned."
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              "mean": "(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.\n2007, Stewart Motha, \"Reconciliation as Domination\" in Scott Veitch (ed.), Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, Routledge, 2016, p. 83, \nViolence is apparently introduced early by the practice of \"cruelling\": children even in their first months are physically punished and then encouraged to seek retribution by punishing the punisher.\n2009, Mark Colvin, ABC, \"Peter Sutton discusses the politics of suffering in Aboriginal communities,\" 2 July, 2009, \n   I was referring to the area where you were talking about this practice of cruelling; the pinching of babies, sometimes so hard that their skin breaks and may go septic."
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          "name": "Noun",
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            {
              "mean": "Alternative form of crewel"
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            {
              "mean": "cruel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\ncruel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911"
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