imbrute

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make brutal
    — 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.
  2. To degrade to the state of a brute
    — How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.

词形变化

imbrutes present,singular,third-person imbruting participle,present imbruted participle,past imbruted past

词汇关系

衍生词
imbrutement

词源

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