[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

imbrute \imbrute"\, v. i.
   to sink to the state of a brute.
   1913 webster

         the soul grows clotted by contagion,
         imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose
         the divine property of her first being.  --milton.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

imbrute \imbrute"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. imbruted; p. pr. 
   vb. n. imbruting. pref. im- in + brute: cf. f. abrutir.
   cf. embrute.
   to degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.
   1913 webster

         and mixed with bestial slime,
         this essence to incarnate and imbrute.   --milton.
   1913 webster
see also:
imbruted imbruting embrute 

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