imbrue

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’]. transitive
    — My hands were imbrued in his blood.

词形变化

imbrues present,singular,third-person imbruing participle,present imbrued participle,past imbrued past embrue alternative

词源

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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