imbrute
or em·brute
[im-broot]
verb (used with or without object), im·brut·ed, im·brut·ing.
to degrade or sink to the level of a brute.
Origin of imbrute
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Historical Examples of imbrute
Imbrute (said to have been coined by Milton) is also intransitive; in Par.
Milton's ComusJohn Milton
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.