Meaning

1 senses

  1. To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].

    My hands were imbrued in his blood.

More definitions
  • permeate or impregnate

Origin

From Middle English embrewen, from Old French *embrever (whence Middle French embreuver),

From Middle English embrewen, from Old French *embrever (whence Middle French embreuver), metathetic variant of embevrer (“to imbibe, steep, penetrate, soak”) (with same stem variation found in French abreuver and beuverie), from Vulgar Latin imbiberāre.

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Forms

imbrues, imbruing, imbrued, imbrued

regular · Lesson

Base formimbrue · to imbrue
3rd person singularimbrues
Present participleimbruing
Past simpleimbrued
Past participleimbrued

Tenses

imbrue · imbrued · will imbrue · have imbrued

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyimbrue
he, she, itimbrues

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave imbrued
he, she, ithas imbrued

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill imbrue

Past simpleLesson

all personsimbrued

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedimbruement

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
imbalanceimbecileimbibeimbueimitateB1imitationB2immaculate

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