Definition of Animalize

1. Verb. Represent in the form of an animal.

Exact synonyms: Animalise
Generic synonyms: Interpret, Represent
Derivative terms: Animal, Animal

2. Verb. Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman. "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
Exact synonyms: Animalise, Brutalise, Brutalize
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization

3. Verb. Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.
Exact synonyms: Animalise, Brutalise, Brutalize
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization

Definition of Animalize

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

Definition of Animalize

1. Verb. To represent in the form of an animal ¹

2. Verb. To brutalize ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Animalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Animalize

animaliers
animalike
animalisation
animalise
animalised cell
animalish
animalism
animalisms
animalist
animalistic
animalists
animalities
animality
animalization
animalizations
animalize (current term)
animalized
animalizes
animalizing
animallike
animally
animalness
animals
animanga
animas
animastic
animat
animate
animate being
animate thing

Literary usage of Animalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technologisches Wörterbuch in englischer und deutscher Sprache: Die Wörter by Gustav Eger, Otto Brandes (1884)
"... adj. animal; in —en Stoff verwandeln, to animalize: der Pflanzenfaser die Eigentümlichkeit —er Faser geben, to animalize vegetable fibre. ..."

2. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Idiots animalize, imbeciles become violent, egoistic, coarse, and vulgar, and the weak-minded grow unsettled in their moral feelings and are without ..."

3. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"... rt animalize. animalité, /. animality, animal nature or life. animateur, a. animating. animatrice, fern, of animateur. animer, г. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"... well able to animalize a monastery. In the beauty of rude health it would be difficult to surpass the women of the fish towns on the east coast of ..."

5. The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1881)
"I animalize it. I render it sensitive." It harbors latent, imperfect sensibility rendered perfect and made manifest. Organization is the cause, ..."

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