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Animalize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cause (another) to behave like an animal.

v. To depict or represent in the form of an animal.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To represent in the form of an animal

v. To brutalize

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.

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

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make into an animal; endow with the attributes of an animal; represent in animal form: as, the Egyptians animalized their deities.

To give an animal character or appearance to; especially, to render animal in nature or habits; brutalize; sensualize; excite the animal passions of.

To convert into animal matter by the process of assimilation; assimilate, as food.

To give, as to vegetable fiber, some of the characteristics of animal fiber, as when cotton is so treated with albumin or casein, or a strong solution of caustic soda, that the fiber shrinks, becomes stronger, and is made capable of absorbing aniline dyes.

Also spelled animalise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

v. represent in the form of an animal

v. make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

Word Usage

"I mean, to kind of animalize them, much like they did referring to Venus and Serena Williams that day."

Verb Form

animalized animalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change interpret represent modify alter

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sensualize brutalize