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

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

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

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

The imbruted monster turned upon his heel without any reply.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

It is one of the marvels of human depravity that intelligent minds could have been so imbruted as to tolerate, for a day, so fiend-like a wrong.

From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

Ambition, political success, social prestige had no fascination for a man who was half imbruted, and utterly disappointed and worn out.

From Trumps by George William Curtis

His erstwhile quick wits were dulled and imbruted.

From The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

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

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