Word Finder - brute

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An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.

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A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.

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One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."

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(Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.

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To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

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Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

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a brute beast

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Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).

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Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.

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the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

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Crude, unpolished.

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Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.

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I punched him with brute force.

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Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.

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brute violence

Brute force usually won any battle he fought.

I'll have to use brute force, then.

He accepted frankly the glorification of brute strength.

This defence of the poetic point of view against brute force and common sense was admirably constructed and it proved one of the most popular of his plays.

Further, a distinction was drawn between irrational animals, or the brute creation, and the rational, i.e.

Rev. Simon William Gabriel Brute, First Bishop of Vincennes (New York, 1861), containing much autobiographical matter.

Her first strike might as well have been in slow motion; no one moved like he did with brute strength that flattened her after a particularly harsh block.

And I insulted you by being such a brute.

Only when brute force in its extremest form had been ruthlessly employed, only when three senators and some deputies had been arrested in full session by Russian grenadiers and sent as prisoners to Kaluga, did the opposition collapse.

If her Christmas gift was any indication, she thought she might be falling for the brute.

The Hellenistic monarchies rested, as all government in the last resort must, upon the loyalty of those who wielded the brute force of the state, and however unlimited the powers of the king might be in theory, he could not alienate the goodwill of the army with impunity.

In 1496 Varady, archbishop of Kalocsa, one of the few good prelates, declared that their lot was worse than that of brute beasts.

He sold his share in the property in 1776 for £35,000, and took leave of the stage by playing a round of his favourite characters - Hamlet, Lear, Richard and Benedick, among Shakespearian parts; Lusignan in Zara, Aaron Hill's adaptation of Voltaire's Zaire; and Kitely in his own adaptation of Ben Jonson's Archer in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem; Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's Alchemist; Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife; Leon in Fletcher's Rule a Wife and have a Wife.

Powers of reasoning are not denied to animals nor even speech; the silence of the brute creation may be put down to their superior cunning.

Presumably this originated simply in the liberty-loving Briton's respect for proper legal procedure; instead of the brute exercise of tyrannous force he demanded "law," or a fair opportunity and trial.

In his books on geological subjects he maintained a distinctly theological attitude, declining to admit the descent or evolution of man from brute ancestors, and holding that the human species only made its appearance on this earth within quite recent times.

The see of Vincennes was created in 1834; and Brute, nominated its first bishop and consecrated in the same year, went to France for financial aid, with which he built his cathedral and several useful institutions.

The takin, which may be compared in size to a Kerry cow, is a clumsily built brute with yellowish-brown hair and curiously curved horns, which recall those of the South African white-tailed gnu.

Men seeing the nature of this man like that of the brute, think that he has never possessed the innate faculty of reason.

Sometimes you can be devious and other times you can just use brute force against the computer cars.

Where Xander used brute force to subdue an opponent, Darian was wily.

Taran met her blows and then attacked without his brute force, instead assessing her ability to react.

He was able to hear thoughts and manipulate minds in addition to brute strength that allowed him to tear men in two with no effort.

The interruption of maritime intercourse, the stagnation of industry and trade, the rise in the price of the necessaries of life, the impossibility of adequately providing for the families of those - call them reservists, " landwehr," or what you will - who are torn away from their daily toil to serve in the tented field, - these are considerations that may well make us pause before we abandon a peaceful solution and appeal to brute force.

In the latter case it is necessary to have reliable men with the beaters, who can exercise authority and keep them in order, for both mahouts and elephants have the greatest dread of the huge brute, who appears to be much more formidable than he really is."

It is rather due to an overpowering sense of the value of organization - a sense that liberty can never be dissevered from order, that a vital interconnexion between all the parts of the body politic is the source of all good, so that while he can find nothing but brute weight in an organized public, he can compare the royal person in his ideal form of constitutional monarchy to the dot upon the letter i.

There came a time, however, when Clement and more particularly his following had to acknowledge the vanity of these illusive dreams; and before his death, which took place on the 16th of September 1394, he realized the impossibility of overcoming by brute force an opposition which was founded on the convictions of the greater part of Catholic Europe, and discerned among his adherents the germs of disaffection.

A shabby compound of brute force and imposture, the 18th Brumaire was nevertheless condoned, nay applauded, by the French nation.

Indeed, Ariel flourishes in the service of Prospero under the external government of the many-headed brute.

While violent, Talon wasn't the smartest brute in the world.

You have never countenanced the evil doctrine of the brute coercion of the human will.

And so they are brute beasts who are driven by passion.

Then the poor brute within gave vent to a series of short, sharp cries.

The antidote to black magic is not brute materialism or worldly wisdom.

There can be little doubt, however, that inference by man differs from that of the brute creation in respect of self-consciousness, and, though there can be no doubt that some animals dream, it is difficult to find evidenc 2 for the presence of ideal images in the minds of ..

However reluctant some states may be to bind themselves to any rules excluding recourse to brute force when diplomatic negotiations have failed, they have nevertheless unanimously at the Hague Conference of 1907 declared their " firm determination to cooperate in the maintenance of general peace " (la ferme volonte de concourir au maintien de la paix generale) 1, and their resolution " to favour with all their efforts the amicable settlement of international conflicts " (preamble to Peace Convention).

As soon as the breath of evening does not suffice longer to preserve them, then the nature of man does not differ much from that of the brute.

Thus what remains to be seen is whether agility can out-do the brute force of powerful unaccountable institutions.

Now, in my experience, things never exactly slide off anything, more like needing to be wrenched off with brute force.

Freud contended that the brute subconscious realm holds aspects of the self that the individual wants to suppress.

Later in the game, you actually get to play as King Kong and use his brute strength to stop the enemies coming your way.

General Sherman's succinct declaration on the brute nature of war has become ensconced in our national lexicon as an offhand way of acknowledging the true horror of war without actually having to think on it.

On the Sierra 117 level, go to the train depot and look to the bridge where the hammer Brute is.

Find a Chief Brute with a gravity hammer (or any Chief Brute, but the one with a gravity hammer makes you invincible more consistently).

Not as bulky as Sagat, Adon learned to focus his attacks on speed rather than brute force.

Before the Brute is able to use the hammer, kill him.

Shao Kahn also has the ability to consume souls and is overwhelmingly powerful, overcoming many enemies with brute strength.

Squad-based combat games combine the strategy genre with first-person shooters (or third, as in the case of Brute Force for the Xbox), so by all rights, this should double your fun.

Zasalamel is a scythe wielding brute who will remind you of Rock and Astaroth, but is a bit faster.

The same can be said of the mold casing and the Hulk Smash fist, though you may want to make sure that players don't get out of hand with smashing the cars with brute force.