Imbrue

Quick meaning: Imbrue is a verb meaning (transitive) To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].

Meaning

(transitive) To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].

Example Sentences

My hands were imbrued in his blood.

"I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity—fundamentally unchanged, after all—to our own. I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.

At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me, should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!

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.

Word Forms

• imbrues
• imbruing
• imbrued

Synonyms for imbrue

Depending on context, synonyms include drench.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drench, embrue, bloody, ensanguine, beblood, bebleed.

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