embruted

English

Verb

embruted

simple past tense and past participle of embrute

Adjective

embruted (comparative more embruted, superlative most embruted)

Brought to the level of a brute; brutalized.
- 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman‎:
  [W]oman […] is required to moralize, sentimentalize herself to stone, and pine her life away, labouring to reform her embruted mate.

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