Animalise
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of animalize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard
"Wireless imagination and the use of free words will lead us to the essence of Matter ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live the same life as that of matter."
- 2 become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling wordnet
- 3 make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman wordnet
- 4 represent in the form of an animal wordnet
Example
More examples"Wireless imagination and the use of free words will lead us to the essence of Matter ... we may animalise, vegetalise, mineralise, electrify, and liquefy style, making it, to a certain extent, live the same life as that of matter."
Etymology
From animal + -ise.
More for "animalise"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.