| 单词 | brute | 
| 释义 | brute    (brt)n. 1.  An animal other than a human; a beast. 2.  A brutal, crude, or insensitive person. adj. 1.  Of or relating to animals other than humans: "None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter" (Henry David Thoreau). 2.  Characteristic of a brute, especially: a.  Entirely physical: brute force. b.  Lacking or showing a lack of reason or intelligence: a brute impulse. c.  Savage; cruel: brute coercion. d.  Unremittingly severe: was driven to steal food through brute necessity. 3.  Coarse; brutish. [From Middle English, nonhuman, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus, stupid; see  gwerə-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] brutism n.  | 
	
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