Bruise, n. Contusion.
Bruit, n. Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.
Bruit, v. a. Report, noise, blaze, blazon, or spread abroad.
Brunt, n. Shock, heat of onset.
Brush, n.
- 1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.
- 2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, underwood, brushwood.
Brushwood, n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.
Brusque, Brusk, a. Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.
Brutal, a.
- 1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent,
bloody, brutish, brute.
- 2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, brusque, ungentlemanly.
- 3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.
Brutality, n. Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.
Brute, n.
- 1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.
- 2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.
Brute, a.
- 1. Irrational, void of reason.
- 2. Dumb, speechless, inarticulate, silent, voiceless, destitute of language.
- 3. Bestial, savage, barbarous. See brutal.
- 4. Rough, rude, uncivilized.