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embrue

embrue is the alternative form 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 embrue

third-person singular presentembrues
present participleembruing
past participleembrued
pastembrued

Words formed from embrue

Questions about embrue

What is embrue the alternative form of?
Embrue is the alternative form of imbrue.

Words near embrue in the dictionary

  1. embrownest
  2. embrowneth
  3. embrowning
  4. embrowns
  5. embroyde
  6. embrue
  7. embrued
  8. embrues
  9. embruing
  10. embrute
  11. embruted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embrue (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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