brute (n.)

  1. a cruelly rapacious person

    [ Syn: beast , wolf , savage , wildcat ]

  2. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

    [ Syn: animal , animate being , beast , creature , fauna ]

    brute (adj.)

  1. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; beastly desires; a bestial nature; brute force; a dull and brutish man; bestial treatment of prisoners

    [ Syn: beastly , bestial , brutish , brutal ]

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