Definition of "imbrued" [imbrued]

• Simple past tense and past participle of imbrue. (verb)
• Stained with blood; wounded, bloody. (adjective)
• Stained with blood. (adjective)

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• "My music is a Cannon, a pitched field my stage, Furies the actors, blood and vengeance the scene, death the story, a sword imbrued with blood, the pen that writes, and the poet a terrible buskined < 17 > tragical fellow, with a wreath about his head of burning match instead of bays."
• ""Alas, a sword imbrued in the blood of your country!"
• "A highly popular murder had been committed, and Mr. Wopsle was imbrued in blood to the eyebrows."