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imbrute

verb

Etymology

From im- + brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar.

  1. derived from *gʷréh₂us✻ — “heavy”
  2. derived from brūtus — “dull, stupid, insensible”
  3. derived from brut
  4. derived from brut
  5. prefixed as imbrute — “im + brute”

Definitions

  1. To make brutal

    • 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

    • How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.
    • Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown.

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