Imbrute
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Imbrute is a verb meaning To make brutal.
Meaning
To make brutal.
More Meanings
- To degrade to the state of a brute
Example Sentences
How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.
Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown.
It was his belief in his father's indifference or dislike that hardened and imbruted him; it is only when he hears how that father loved him that I now melt his pride and curb his passions.
So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom!
Word Forms
- imbrutes
- imbruting
- imbruted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brutalise, brutalize, animalize, butcher, blooter, massacre.
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