imbrue

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French embruer, from Germanic.

Verb

imbrue (third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)

1. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
   • 1837: Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter ; A Story of Madrid, volume II, pages 275–276 (Richard Bentley)

     Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder, — found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

   • 1903, Henry James, The Ambassadors:

     "I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity—fundamentally unchanged, after all—to our own. I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.

Alternative forms

• embrue

Translations

To stain

• Bulgarian: опетнявам (bg) (opetnjavam), омокрям със (omokrjam sǎs)
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Anagrams

• erbium, imbuer