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Animalize

Animalize Meaning & Definition
Animalize Definition And Meaning

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

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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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