brute
/bruːt/
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American sound/bruːt/
brute
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US voice -> brute
Myanmar meaning
(n) တိရစ္ဆာန်။ ရက်စက်သောသူ။
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၁။ ကြီးမားကြမ်းကြုတ်သော တိရစ္ဆာန်။ ဘီလူး။ That dog looks a real brute.
၂။ (sometimes joc ) [ဥ] ပြိတ္တာ။ ဘီလူး။ His father was a drunken brute. ❍You've forgotten my birthday again, you brute!
၃။ ဧရာမ (သို့) ထုံပေပေဟာကြီး။ a brute of a problem ❍ This lock's a brute—it just won't open!
adj (က) အကြမ်းပတမ်း။ သရဲမရဲစီး။ brute force/strength/instinct. (ခ) ပကတိ။ အရှိအတိုင်း။ a brute fact/necessity.
❏ brutish adj အရိုင်းအစိုင်းကဲ့သို့သော။ တိရစ္ဆာန်ကဲ့သို့သော။ brutish behaviour/manners/treatment ❍ Life for our early ancestors was nasty, brutish and short, they say. brutishly adv
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beast, creature, monster, animal, barbarian, base, basic, beastly, bestial, bodily, brutish, bully, cannibal, carnal, critter, degenerate, devil, feral, ferine, fiend, fleshly, instinctive, instinctual, lout, mindless, ogre, physical, ruffian, sadist, savage, senseless, swine, swinish, thug, unthinking, visceral, wild animal
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