About The Word Animalize
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Animalize
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What's The Definition Of 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Animalize: animalise | animalise | brutalise | brutalize Related Terms | Find terms related to Animalize: See Also | alter | change | interpret | represent Animalize In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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