Definition of "embrued" [embrued]

• Simple past tense and past participle of embrue. (verb)

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• "I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars — of another faith altogether."
• "The ghastly condition of the maimed, truncated cadaver, its upper torsal region embrued in gore, was in itself profoundly appalling."
• "He goes on to sum up Medea's fate in a sanguine little couplet, made even more mischievously dramatic by caesura and dash: "Else had we seen a parent's hand embrued,/Suffice the horrid thought, in filial blood --" The effect here, whether the poet intends it or not, is firmly to separate the temporal elements of his narrative from the static ones in the picture."