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

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 Saintine, Joseph Xavier

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

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

And each knows that wherever he may turn, he will find the other standing up against him—the fierce imbruted prisoner with his royal fearlessness, and his intense and frigid guard.

From A Modern Mercenary by Prichard, K. (Kate)

But she herself is a slave-holder, and therefore by our theory she ought to be imbruted.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah

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