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animalize

Verb (transitive)

an=i=mal=ize

WORDNET DICTIONARY

animalize(v = verb.creation) animalise - represent in the form of an animal; Array

is one way to interpret, represent

Derived form noun animal₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

animalize(v = verb.change) animalise, brutalise, brutalize - make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

animalize(v = verb.change) animalise, brutalise, brutalize - become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling; Array

is one way to change

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s

animalize, v. t. [Cf. F. animaliser.].

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. [1913 Webster]
To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. [1913 Webster]
To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. [1913 Webster]
"The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy." [1913 Webster]

animalize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make (a person) bestial; sensualize.
2 convert to animal substance.

Derivative

animalization n.

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