"imbrute" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "im- + brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar",
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      "form": "imbrutes",
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      "form": "imbruting",
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      "form": "imbruted",
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          "ref": "1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons, Complete",
          "text": "It was his belief in his father's indifference or dislike that hardened and imbruted him; it is only when he hears how that father loved him that I now melt his pride and curb his passions.",
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        "To make brutal"
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          "ref": "1905, Various, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2",
          "text": "How deep was the change, made upon the imbruted Asiatics, we may perhaps question.",
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        {
          "ref": "1855, Daniel Drayton, Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton",
          "text": "So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom!",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, Joseph Xavier Saintine, The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe",
          "text": "Notwithstanding all that has been said, the solitary is a man imbruted, vegetating, deprived of his crown.",
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        "To degrade to the state of a brute"
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  "etymology_text": "im- + brute. Akin to Italian imbruttire, Spanish embrutecer, Catalan embrutar",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "imbruting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "imbruted",
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        "To make brutal"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Daniel Drayton, Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton",
          "text": "So imbruted and stupefied by slavery was this old woman, that she seemed to think the selling her boy away from her a perfectly humane, Christian and proper act, while all her indignation was turned against me, who had merely afforded the boy an opportunity of securing his freedom!",
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        "To degrade to the state of a brute"
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