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Embrued vs Imbrued - What's the difference?

embrued | imbrued |

As verbs the difference between embrued and imbrued

is that embrued is past tense of embrue while imbrued is past tense of imbrue.

As an adjective imbrued is

stained with blood; wounded, bloody.

embrued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embrue)

    • embrue

    English

    Verb

  • Variant of imbrue.

    • imbrued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imbrue)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
  • *:Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.
  • (heraldry) Stained with blood.