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Imbrued vs Imbrues - What's the difference?

imbrued | imbrues |

As verbs the difference between imbrued and imbrues

is that imbrued is (imbrue) while imbrues is (imbrue).

As an adjective imbrued

is (obsolete) stained with blood; wounded, bloody.

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.

    • imbrues

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imbrue)

    • imbrue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * embrue

    Verb

  • To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
  • * 1837 : Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II, pages 275–276] ([[w:Bentley's Miscellany, Richard Bentley])
    • Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

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