Imbrute

Full definition of imbrute

Verb

1. To make brutal
• 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons, Complete Chapter , It was his belief in his father's indifference or dislike that hardened and imbruted him; it is only when he hears how that father loved him that I now melt his pride and curb his passions.
2. To degrade to the state of a brute
• 1905, Various, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 Chapter , How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.
• 1855, Daniel Drayton, Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton Chapter , So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom!
• 1851, Joseph Xavier Saintine, The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe Chapter , Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown.

Anagrams

• terbium