Imbrued

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of imbrue.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of imbrue
2. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
3. (heraldry) Stained with blood.

Example Sentences

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.

He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.

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• more imbrued
• most imbrued

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