imbrued
English
Adjective
imbrued (comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)
- (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- (heraldry) Stained with blood.
Synonyms
- (stained with blood): ablood, bloodstained, sanguinolent; see also Thesaurus:bloodied
- (wounded): hurt, injured, wounded; see also Thesaurus:wounded
- (heraldry):
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