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animalize en · VERB

Etymology

From animal (adjective) + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To represent in the form of an animal.
  2. To brutalize.
  3. 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. 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Section III:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
animalizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
animalized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
animalized Tense=Past lexicographic
animalizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
animalise alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

unanimalized · deanimalize · animalization · reanimalize

Relateds

zoomorphize

Translations (3)

es animalizar (represent in the form of an animal) · pl animalizować (represent in the form of an animal) · ca animalitzar (represent in the form of an animal)