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imbrute

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im·brute  (m-brt)
tr. & intr.v. im·brut·ed, im·brut·ing, im·brutes
To make or become brutal.
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Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
that I who erst contended With Gods to sit the highest, am now constraind Into a Beast, and mixt with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the hight of Deitie aspir'd; But what will not Ambition and Revenge Descend to?
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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