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.

---

Other Word Forms

• embrutement
  noun
• imbrutement
  noun

---

Etymology

Origin of imbrute

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

---

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

No trace of manhood or womanhood was visible—and no animal is so repulsive as a man or woman imbruted.

From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

Long-wrought, closely knit, subtly swaying, deep-rooted, The system whose shadow is over the child; By grey superstition debased and imbruted, By craft's callous cruelty deeply defiled.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various

Upon its hardened surface only a few wretched imbruted creatures crawled, seeking to sustain life upon the scanty remains of a decaying vegetation.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

This imbruted creature, says the objector, does not possess the metaphysical conception of God as a Spirit, and of all his various attributes and qualities, like the dweller in Christendom.

From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

Retribution may come from any voice; the hardest, cruelest, most imbruted urchin at the street-corner can inflict it; surely help and pity are rarer things, more needful for the righteous to bestow.

From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---