Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To degrade to the condition of a brute; make brutal or like a brute; brutalize.
- To fall or sink to the condition of a brute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To brutify; to imbrute.
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- verb Alternative form of
imbrute .
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Examples
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To harden and embrute the kindly dispositions, we must not only indulge in guilt but feel that we are guilty.
Paul Clifford — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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You would dethrone and embrute the lords of the earth by your theories.
A Strange Story — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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You would dethrone and embrute the lords of the earth by your theories.
A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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To harden and embrute the kindly dispositions, we must not only indulge in guilt but feel that we are guilty.
Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I do not pretend to say that I had not, during my time at the university, and afterwards in London, my follies and imprudences; but my soul did not, like many other souls of my acquaintance, "embody and embrute."
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
yarb commented on the word embrute
In her, grief, distress, the pinch of poverty, and, above all, the nameless fear of the turbulent, fierce life of the streets, had produced a numbness, an embruted, sodden, silent, speechless condition of dazed mind, and clogged, unintelligent speech.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 8
August 29, 2008