verb
- past tense of imbrute; to make or become brutal or savage; to degrade to the level of a brute animal
Usage: archaic; literary; transitive or intransitive
Examples
- Years of war had imbruted the soldiers, stripping away their humanity.
- The harsh conditions imbruted the prisoners, reducing them to mere survival instincts.
- Constant violence imbruted his character until he became unrecognizable.
- She feared that isolation would imbrute her spirit.
- The novel depicts how cruelty imbruted the once-gentle protagonist.