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

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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

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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

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