English

Verb

imbrued

1. simple past tense and past participle of imbrue

Adjective

imbrued ‎(comparative more imbrued, superlative most imbrued)

1. (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.

2. (heraldry) Stained with blood.