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embrew

embrew is the obsolete spelling of imbrue.

Meaning of imbrue

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].
    • My hands were imbrued in his blood.

Forms of embrew

third-person singular presentembrews
present participleembrewing
past participleembrewed
pastembrewed

Questions about embrew

What is embrew the obsolete spelling of?
Embrew is the obsolete spelling of imbrue.

Words near embrew in the dictionary

  1. embreathing
  2. embrechite
  3. embrechites
  4. Embree
  5. Embrees
  6. embrew
  7. embrewe
  8. embrewed
  9. embrewing
  10. embrews
  11. Embrey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embrew (page history and authors); imbrue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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