animalize
Americanverb (used with object)
-
to excite the animal passions of; brutalize; sensualize.
-
Fine Arts. to represent in animal form or endow with animal features.
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of animalize
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it: this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
Then to animalize a substance, is only to destroy the obstacles that prevent its being active or sensible.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
Yet if his stories "animalized" characters, they also animated them with the elemental life of their time and condition.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalized nature; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the Agouti.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The blood is not either highly arterialized or animalized.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker
From all this they deduced a lofty theory which embraces all mankind, and all that portion of creation which may be animalized.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
It appears to me probable that the strong tendency which the valves in this species have to disintegrate, is connected with the unusual quantity of animalized tissue contained by them.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
“Often, it is only by anthropomorphizing animals and animalizing humans that the fictions that necessitate human borders can be propped up at all.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
Without overdoing it, good animal books humanize animals while animalizing humans.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
