What is the meaning of brute?

noun

A cruelly rapacious person.
- synonyms: beast, wolf, savage, wildcat
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
- synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna

adjective

Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility.
- usage: "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
- synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutish, brutal

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