imbrute

English

From im- +‎ brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar.

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

To make brutal
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons, Complete‎^[1]:
  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.
To degrade to the state of a brute
- 1905, Various, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2‎^[2]:
  How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.
- 1855, Daniel Drayton, Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton‎^[3]:
  So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom!
- 1851, Joseph Xavier Saintine, The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe‎^[4]:
  Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown.