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Bestialize

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

v. To represent or portray as an animal or beast.

v. To reduce to a bestial condition; deprave.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to make like a beast

v. to bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make like a beast; bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast.

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

v. make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to

Word Usage

"He was even caricatured and abused for his attempt to "bestialize" his species by the introduction into their systems of diseased matter from the cow's udder."

Verb Form

bestialized bestializes bestializing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Form

bestialized bestializing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

degrade brutalize