Imbrued
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Imbrued is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of imbrue.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of imbrue.
More Meanings
- (heraldry) Stained with blood.
- (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
Example Sentences
He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.
Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
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.
Synonyms for imbrued
Depending on context, synonyms include ablood, bloodstained, sanguinolent, hurt, injured, wounded.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bloodstained, bloodied, beweltered, bloodsome, sanguinolent, bloody.
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