imbrue
Americanverb (used with object)
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to stain.
He refused to imbrue his hands with the blood of more killing.
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to impregnate or imbue (usually followed by with orin ).
They are imbrued with the follies of youth.
verb
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to stain, esp with blood
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to permeate or impregnate
Other Word Forms
- imbruement noun
Etymology
Origin of imbrue
1400–50; late Middle English enbrewen < Middle French embreuver to cause to drink in, soak, drench < Vulgar Latin *imbiberāre, derivative of Latin imbibere to imbibe
Example Sentences
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Whether or not the hand of Laskowicz is imbrued in this the future will show.
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Barnwell, instead of imbruing his hands in innocent blood, even "in jest," became the most active agent in rescuing his hapless audience from their perilous situation.
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If I had continued to imbrue myself either in bloody crimes or the fierce drunkenness of the life of the galleys, this salutary change would never have come over me I know full well.
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No bayings from the forest sound, No cry the empty midnight cuts— The midnight space that grows imbrued With damp breaths from the ashy ground.
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It had stripped its mistress clean of all feeble accomplishments; her hands were imbrued neither with ink nor with water-color.
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