imbrued
imbrued is the simple past and past participle of imbrue.
Adjective
imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)
- 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
- He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Synonyms:
- hurt
- 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
Meaning of imbrue
Verb
imbrue (third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)
- To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].
- My hands were imbrued in his blood.
Synonyms of imbrued
Forms of imbrued
| comparative | more imbrued |
|---|---|
| superlative | most imbrued |
Origin of imbrued
From imbrue + -ed.
Words formed from imbrued
Questions about imbrued
- What does imbrued mean?
- Imbrued means stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
- What is imbrued the simple past and past participle of?
- Imbrued is the simple past and past participle of imbrue.
- What part of speech is imbrued?
- Imbrued is an adjective.
Words near imbrued in the dictionary
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