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Definition of Bestialize
1. Verb. Make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to.
Definition of Bestialize
1. v. t. To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
Definition of Bestialize
1. Verb. to make like a beast ¹
2. Verb. to bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestialize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestialize
Literary usage of Bestialize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"But most terrible is this, that, to do so, they have to bestialize these simple,
good fellows, and in this they have partly succeeded. ..."
2. The Nether Side of New York, Or, the Vice, Crime and Poverty of the Great by Edward Crapsey (1872)
"Breeders of contentions, brawls, domestic murders, these houses subject children
from earliest infancy to incidents which must bestialize them. ..."
3. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"Besses o' th' Barn, town near Manchester. bestialize*, not -ise. bestrew*, not -ow.
Bestuur*, government in Dutch-speaking S. Africa. ..."
4. Library Notes by Addison Peale Russell (1875)
"Not only did the doctors refuse to make trial of the process, but the discoverer
was accused of an attempt to ' bestialize ' his species by introducing into ..."
5. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
"But most terrible is this, that, to do so, they have to bestialize these simple,
good fellows, and in this they have partly succeeded. ..."
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