embrute

Verb

imbrute (third-person singular simple present imbrutes, present participle imbruting, simple past and past participle imbruted)

1. To make brutal
   • It was his belief in his father's indifference or dislike that hardened and imbruted him; it is only when he hears how that father loved him that I now melt his pride and curb his passions.1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons, Complete
2. To degrade to the state of a brute
   • How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.1905, Various, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2