different between imbrue vs imbrute

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

im- +? brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar

Verb

imbrute (third-person singular simple present imbrutes, present participle imbruting, simple past and past participle imbruted)

1. To make brutal
2. To degrade to the state of a brute

References

• imbrute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• terbium