different between imbrue vs imbrued

English

Etymology

From Old French embruer, from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?u?/

Verb

imbrue (third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)

1. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
   • 1837: Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid, volume II, pages 275–276 (Richard Bentley)

     Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

Alternative forms

• embrue

Translations

Anagrams

• erbium, imbuer, murbie

English

Etymology

From imbrue +? -ed.

Verb

imbrued

1. simple past tense and past participle of imbrue

Adjective

imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)

1. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:

     Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].

   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.

     He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.

2. (heraldry) Stained with blood.

Synonyms

• (stained with blood): ablood, bloodstained, sanguinolent; see also Thesaurus:bloodied
• (wounded): hurt, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
• (heraldry):