Definitions for: Animalize


[v] become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
[v] make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
[v] represent in the form of an animal



Webster (1913) Definition: An"i*mal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Animalizing.] [Cf. F. animaliser.]
1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in
animal form. --Warburton.

2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of
assimilation.

3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a
lower animal; to sensualize.

The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the
animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
--Coleridge.

Synonyms: animalise, animalise, brutalise, brutalize

See Also: alter, change, interpret, represent

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