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Searching vs Cruel - What's the difference?

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Searching is a related term of cruel.


As verbs the difference between searching and cruel

is that searching is while cruel is to spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).

As adjectives the difference between searching and cruel

is that searching is thorough while cruel is not nice; mean; heartless.

As a noun searching

is search; hunt.

searching

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Thorough.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • search; hunt
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  • , passage=Depending on whom you ask, Antony Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being exploited by his associates.}}

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    cruel

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Not nice; mean; heartless.
  • The supervisor was very cruel to Josh, as he would always give Josh the hardest, most degrading work he could find.
  • (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
  • Synonyms

    * brutal * sadistic * vicious

    Antonyms

    * merciful

    Derived terms

    * cruelly

    Verb

  • To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success)
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