Imbrue

//ɪmˈbɹuː//

Synonyms for "imbrue" (46 found)

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Bulgarian

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  • омокрям със verb (to stain)
  • опетнявам verb (to stain)

Sample sentences

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My hands were imbrued in his blood.

Source: wiktionary

Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder, — found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

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At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me, should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!

Source: wiktionary

"I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity—fundamentally unchanged, after all—to our own. I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.

Source: wiktionary

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