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imbrew

imbrew is the obsolete 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 imbrew

third-person singular presentimbrews
present participleimbrewing
past participleimbrewed
pastimbrewed

Questions about imbrew

What is imbrew the obsolete form of?
Imbrew is the obsolete form of imbrue.

Words near imbrew in the dictionary

  1. imbreathe
  2. imbreathes
  3. imbred
  4. imbreed
  5. imbreeding
  6. imbrew
  7. imbrewed
  8. imbrewing
  9. imbrews
  10. imbrex
  11. Imbrian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: imbrew (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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