Usually means: Reduce to a beastly state.
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  1. imbrute: Merriam-Webster
  2. imbrute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. imbrute: Wordnik
  4. imbrute: Wiktionary
  5. imbrute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. imbrute: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Imbrute, imbrute: Dictionary.com
  8. Imbrute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. imbrute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Imbrute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. imbrute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. imbrute: FreeDictionary.org
  13. imbrute: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. imbrute: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (imbrute)

▸ verb:  To make brutal
▸ verb:  To degrade to the state of a brute

Similar:
brutalise, brutalize, animalize, butcher, blooter, massacre, thrash, bare-knuckle, roughhouse, maul, more...

Opposite:
civilize, humanize, refine

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Similar:
brutalise, brutalize, animalize, butcher, blooter, massacre, thrash, bare-knuckle, roughhouse, maul, more...

Opposite:
civilize, humanize, refine



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