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What does brute mean?

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Adjective
  1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]
  2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
  3. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]
  4. Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
  5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
  6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
  7. Inexplicable
Noun
  1. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]
  3. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
Verb
  1. Obsolete spelling of bruit
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