verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To make physical or materialistic, as opposed to spiritual transitive

   "We must not allow our worship to become carnalized."

2. 2
   debase through carnal gratification wordnet
3. 3
   ascribe to an origin in sensation wordnet
4. 4
   represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

carnalisecoarsensensualisesensualizesensualize

Example

More examples

"We must not allow our worship to become carnalized."

Etymology

From carnal + -ize.

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