imbrued

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of imbrue

comparative more imbrued · superlative most imbrued

1. obsoleteStained with blood; wounded, bloody.

   Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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   He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.

   1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.

   Synonyms: hurt

2. governmentStained with blood.

   He bears for Arms : Argent, on a chief vert, two spear-heads erect of the field, the points imbrued gules.

   1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 133

   Synonyms: ablood