American English pronunciation
How to pronounce brute
IPA transcription: [b'ɹut]
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Noun
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a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
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a cruelly rapacious person
Adjective
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resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility
“beastly desires”
“a bestial nature”
“brute force”
“a dull and brutish man”
“bestial treatment of prisoners”
Usage examples
- That brute of a lad has warmed me nicely.
- I'd propose a dictionary attack instead of brute force.
- I'd propose a dictionary attack instead of brute force.
- It drowned all sound that brute agony and death may have made.
- Did you ever see such a brute?
- But, otherwise, how far above the human listener is the brute!
- “I’m thankful it wasn’t that brute,” said she.
- It drowned all sound that brute agony and death may have made.
- I'd propose a dictionary attack instead of brute force.
- Malicious people attempt brute force techniques to penetrate websites.