verb
- to make or become brutal, savage, or coarse; to degrade to the level of a brute
Usage: formal or literary; transitive or intransitive
Examples
- Years of hardship embrutes the spirit if one is not careful.
- The harsh conditions of war embrute soldiers who witness too much violence.
- Constant exposure to cruelty can embrute even the gentlest person.
- He feared that poverty would embrute the children of the city.
- The novel explores how injustice embrutes society over generations.