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embrewed

embrewed is the simple past and past participle of embrew.

embrewed is the obsolete form of imbrued.

Meaning of imbrued

Adjective

imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)

  1. (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
    • Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    hurt
  2. Stained with blood.
    • He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in...
    Synonyms:
    ablood

Questions about embrewed

What is embrewed the simple past and past participle of?
Embrewed is the simple past and past participle of embrew.

Words near embrewed in the dictionary

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

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