imbruting

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adjective

Brutalizing, degrading.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verb

alternative embruting

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of imbrute
adjectiveimbruting (comparative more imbruting, superlative most imbruting)

comparative more imbruting · superlative most imbruting · alternative embruting

  1. Brutalizing, degrading.

    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 […].

    1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 19
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