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Definition of Animalize
1. Verb. Represent in the form of an animal.
2. Verb. Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman. "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Brutalisation, Brutal, Brutalization
3. Verb. Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.
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
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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