imbrute

Definition

To make brutal

Etymology

From im- + brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question."
• "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!"