Definition of "imbrue" [im•brue]

• To saturate. (verb-transitive)
• To stain. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Honest men abhor, villains treat me with contumely; and he for who I incurred all this, because I would not, when my eyes were open to my sin, again imbrue my hands in the blood of my country, Edward thrusts me from him!"
• "Their first offence, the attack of Zara, had been severely punished by the reproach of their conscience and the censures of the pope; nor would they again imbrue their hands in the blood of their fellow-Christians."
• "You tear citizens from the state, who might one day serve it; you imbrue yourself in innocent blood, and are more cruel than cannibals."