imbruting
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]imbruting
- present participle and gerund of imbrute
Adjective
[edit]imbruting (comparative more imbruting, superlative most imbruting)
- Brutalizing, degrading.
- 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 19:
- I shall not, however, dwell on the vices, though they be of the most contemptible and embruting cast, to which a sudden access of fortune gives birth […] .