brute

1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.

   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."

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

verb

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

1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).

   a brute beast

2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
3. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.

   the brute earth; the brute powers of nature

4. Crude, unpolished.
5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.

   I punched him with brute force.

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

   brute violence

verb

To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.