imbrute

or em·brute

[ im-broot ]

verb (used with or without object)

, im·brut·ed, im·brut·ing.

1. to degrade or sink to the level of a brute.

Other Words From

• im·brutement em·brutement noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of imbrute¹

First recorded in 1625–35; im- ¹ + brute ¹

Example Sentences

Imbrute, im-brōōt′, v.t. and v.i. to reduce, or sink, to the state of a brute:—pr.p. imbrut′ing; pa.p. imbrut′ed.

From Project Gutenberg

We further maintain:— That no man has a right to enslave or imbrute his brother—to hold or acknowledge him, for one moment, as a piece of merchandise—to keep back his hire by fraud—or to brutalize his mind by denying him the means of intellectual, social, and moral improvement.

From Project Gutenberg

But the tendency of life in the open air is to make the soul imbody and imbrute, and after a while one begins to think scholarship a disease, or, at any rate, a bad habit; and the Scythian nomad, or, if you choose, the Texan cowboy, seems to be the normal, healthy type.

From Project Gutenberg

As thou hast asked me to testify respecting the physical condition of the slaves merely, I say nothing of the awful neglect of their minds and souls and the systematic effort to imbrute them.

From Project Gutenberg

As thou hast asked me to testify respecting the physical condition of the slaves merely, I say nothing of the awful neglect of their minds and souls and the systematic effort to imbrute them.

From Project Gutenberg