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

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Etymology

Origin of animalize

First recorded in 1735–45; animal + -ize

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Example Sentences

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animalize animalized animalizing

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

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

The particles of which it is composed having a great similitude with those of which we are formed may easily be animalized when they are subjected to the vital action of our digestive organs.

From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson

Indeed, he seems to have a thoroughly animalized intellect, destitute of the notion of relations, with ideas which are but the form of determinations, and which derive their force, not from reason, but from will.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various

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

“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 unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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