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brute

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Adjective

  1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
  2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
  3. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
  4. Crude, unpolished.
  5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous; being purely physical in nature.
  6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.

Noun

  1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
  3. A kind of powerful spotlight.
  4. One who has not yet matriculated.

Verb

  1. To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
  2. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

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