animalize
to excite the animal passions of; brutalize; sensualize.
Fine Arts. to represent in animal form or endow with animal features.
Origin of animalize
1- Also especially British, an·i·mal·ise .
Other words from animalize
- an·i·mal·i·za·tion, noun
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How to use animalize in a sentence
Even the intellect he shows seems actually animalized, and we shudder at its subtlety, as at the cunning of a reptile.
Lectures on Art | Washington AllstonHe even inclined to the belief that the chyle has life, and he considered that food becomes “animalized” in digestion.
Many were too far gone to imitate anything but their own animalized selves.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 | Louise Amelia Knapp Smith ClappeA sleepy animalized existence at home, or a perpetual search after excitement abroad, succeeds.
Blue-Stocking Hall, Vol. 1 (of 3) | William Pitt ScargillThe animalized soul before death remains after death an animalized soul.
The Life of the Waiting Soul | R. E. Sanderson
British Dictionary definitions for animalize
animalise
/ (ˈænɪməˌlaɪz) /
(tr) to rouse to brutality or sensuality or make brutal or sensual
Derived forms of animalize
- animalization or animalisation, noun
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