Verb

(imbrut)

To make brutal

*{{quote-book, year=1849, author=Edward Bulwer-Lytton, title=The Caxtons, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

To degrade to the state of a brute

*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=Various, title=The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1855, author=Daniel Drayton, title=Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom! }}

*{{quote-book, year=1851, author=Joseph Xavier Saintine, title=The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted , vegetating, deprived of his crown. }}

Verb

(embrut)

(Webster 1913)