bestialize

American  

[bes-chuh-lahyz, bees-] / ˈbɛs tʃəˌlaɪz, ˈbis- /

especially British, bestialise

verb (used with object)

bestialized, bestializing

1. to make bestial or beastlike.

   War bestializes its participants.

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bestialize British  

/ ˈbɛstɪəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to make bestial or brutal

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Etymology

Origin of bestialize

First recorded in 1675–85; bestial + -ize

Example Sentences

By contrast, M.M.A. is staged so as to bestialize its fighters; they roll on the floor of a cage.

From New York Times

Mr. Pastor makes the interesting choice not to bestialize Caliban; Mr. Sliphorst is clad only in black trousers and dances with a classical refinement that is not differentiated from the others.

From New York Times

These monkeys raised in the scale were a counterpoise to men brutalized and bestialized.

From Project Gutenberg

He had become, not bestialized, like most of the men I saw, but animalized—he had drifted back into the condition of his dog, with his higher intellect inert.

From Project Gutenberg

He was even caricatured and abused for his attempt to “bestialize” his species by the introduction into their systems of diseased matter from the cow’s udder. 

From Project Gutenberg