Animalize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To represent in the form of an animal.
- 2 become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling wordnet
- 3 To brutalize.
- 4 make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman wordnet
- 5 To convert or produce material rich in animal substance.
"The weaknesses or disorder of the bowels seem chiefly to be occasioned by the poor, watery, meagre, vegetable diet of the children and of their mothers. The latter, from the use of this diet, have their milk poor, and not sufficiently animalised."
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- 6 represent in the form of an animal wordnet
Example
More examples"The weaknesses or disorder of the bowels seem chiefly to be occasioned by the poor, watery, meagre, vegetable diet of the children and of their mothers. The latter, from the use of this diet, have their milk poor, and not sufficiently animalised."
Etymology
From animal (adjective) + -ize.
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