verb
- present participle of embrute; to make or become brutal or savage; to degrade to the level of a brute
Usage: literary; formal
Examples
- The harsh conditions of war were embruting the soldiers, stripping away their humanity.
- Years of isolation seemed to be embruting him, making him increasingly savage and uncivilized.
- The author criticized how poverty and oppression were embruting entire populations.
- Constant violence in the media risks embruting viewers to human suffering.
- The regime's propaganda was deliberately embruting its citizens to justify atrocities.