imbrute

American  

[im-broot] / ɪmˈbrut /

Or embrute

verb (used with or without object)

imbruted, imbruting

1. to degrade or sink to the level of a brute.

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Other Word Forms

• embrutement
  noun
• imbrutement
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of imbrute

First recorded in 1625–35; im- ¹ + brute ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

imbrute imbruted imbruting

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

I care, as you know, nothing for them, nor only that, abhor them for their power to imbrute the people accustomed to their spectacles more and more.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware

His erstwhile quick wits were dulled and imbruted.

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown.

From The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by Joseph Xavier Saintine

Thus, under the gaslight and under the stars, stood the terrible animal,—a strong man imbruted; "SOUVIENS-TOI DE TA GABRIELLE."

From What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

By means of a few drops of powerful cordial, the doctor for a moment reanimated the imbruted carcass that lay before him.

From Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

Retribution may come from any voice; the hardest, crudest most imbruted urchin at the street-corner can inflict it.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke

It spoke of a pause from grinding care and imbruting toil; a gleam of hope in the work-a-day routine.

From The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

Not a few, on finding they cannot enter the beautiful paradise of happy love, plunge into imbruting vice, and drown not only their disappointment but themselves in dissipation.

From Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

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