ANIMALIZE
brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
(verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; “Life in the camps had brutalized him”
animalize, animalise
(verb) represent in the form of an animal
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
animalize (third-person singular simple present animalizes, present participle animalizing, simple past and past participle animalized)
To represent in the form of an animal.
To brutalize.
To convert or produce material rich in animal substance.
Source: Wiktionary
An"i*mal*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Animalizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. animaliser.]
1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal
form. Warburton.
2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower
animal; to sensualize.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing
tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition