animalize

American  

[an-uh-muh-lahyz] / ˈæn ə məˌlaɪz /

especially British, animalise

verb (used with object)

animalized, animalizing

1. to excite the animal passions of; brutalize; sensualize.

2. Fine Arts. to represent in animal form or endow with animal features.

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animalize British  

/ ˈænɪməˌlaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to rouse to brutality or sensuality or make brutal or sensual

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Other Word Forms

• animalization noun

Etymology

Origin of animalize

First recorded in 1735–45; animal + -ize

Example Sentences

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 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

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