transitive verb
-·brued′, -·bru′ing to wet, soak, or stain, esp. with blood
Origin of imbrue
Middle English enbrewen from Old French embreuver, to moisten from Vulgar Latin an unverified form imbiberare, for Classical Latin imbibere: see imbibeimbrue
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imbrue
also em·brue
transitive verb
im·brued, im·bru·ing, im·brues, also em·brued or em·bru·ing or em·brues- To saturate.
- To stain.
Origin of imbrue
Middle English embrewen from Old French embreuver from Vulgar Latin imbiberāre Latin in- in ; see in- 2. Late Latin biber beverage ( from Latin bibere to drink ; see beverage . )THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)
- To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
Anagrams
Origin
From Old French embruer, from Germanic.
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