verb
- to make or become brutal or savage; to degrade to the level of a brute animal
Usage: literary; archaic
Examples
- War imbrutes the soldiers who witness its horrors.
- Constant cruelty imbrutes the human spirit.
- The novel suggests that isolation imbrutes even the most educated mind.
- He feared that vice would imbrute his character.
- Such treatment imbrutes those subjected to it.