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imbrued

adjective as in bloodstained

adjective as in bloody

adjective as in gory

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Example Sentences

The country to be passed through for many miles was full of blood thirsty tories, who, on every occasion that offered, imbrued their hands in the blood of the whigs.

With hands imbrued in blood I have performed the arduous duties of my profession in fourteen battles, yet I never could witness these heartless exhibitions without disgust, and I am sorry to say contempt.

They rose in arms; they broke open the doors of the prison; they pulled out the two brothers, and a thousand hands vied who should first be imbrued in their blood.

My hands are wet with brother’s blood, but it is only by virtue of a slender chance that his are not imbrued with mine.

Whether or not the hand of Laskowicz is imbrued in this the future will show.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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