imbruting

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imbruting

  1. present participle and gerund of imbrute

Adjective[edit]

imbruting (comparative more imbruting, superlative most imbruting)

  1. Brutalizing, degrading.
    • 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 19:
      I shall not, however, dwell on the vices, though they be of the most contemptible and embruting cast, to which a sudden access of fortune gives birth […] .
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