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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
imbrue .
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Examples
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In my opinion it imbrues the spirit of all who are involved.
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Corruption, however, does exist and imbrues the character of the individuals that engage in it, as well as diminishing the institutions that depend on them.
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The sacrilegious man is he who perjures himself on the gospel, who extends his rapacity to sacred things, who imbrues his hands in the blood of priests.
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Julius II. makes and eats God; but, with his cuirass on his back and his helmet on his head, he imbrues his hands in blood and carnage.
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He imbrues himself in the blood of all his relations, and is lulled to sleep in all the effeminacy of luxury; but he is a
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Nay, the fresh bloodshed still imbrues thine hands,
The Choephori 2002
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Nay, the fresh bloodshed still imbrues thine hands,
The Choephori 2002
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No prudent Melanesian would attempt to commit manslaughter without a ghost as an accomplice; to do so would be to court disaster, for the slain man's ghost would have power over the slayer; therefore before he imbrues his hands in blood he deems it desirable to secure the assistance of a valiant ghost who can, if need be, overcome the ghost of his victim in single combat.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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For the pain is a two-edged sword, and imbrues the breast of the pedagogue even while it bleeds the pupil to inanition.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Nay, the fresh bloodshed still imbrues thine hands,
The House of Atreus 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880
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