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

Etymology

Origin of imbrute

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

imbrute imbruted imbruting

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 Ware, William

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

From Walden by Thoreau, Henry David

And why, most of all, why not for the wretched dwellers in the slums of Sydney, the weary women, the puny children, the imbruted men?

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by Miller, John Maurice

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 Hillern, Wilhelmine von

He held that instrument to teach that "nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, degraded and imbruted by its fellows."

From Abraham Lincoln A Memorial Discourse by Eddy, Thomas Mears

In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows.

From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by Nicolay, John George

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 Roe, Edward Payson

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 Roe, Edward Payson

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 Warner, Susan