verb
- to make or become brutal or savage; to degrade to the level of a brute
Usage: literary; archaic
Examples
- War has a tendency to embrute those who participate in it.
- The harsh conditions of slavery sought to embrute the enslaved people.
- Constant violence can embrute even the gentlest of souls.
- He feared that isolation would embrute his character.
- The novel explores how power corrupts and embrutes the human spirit.