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animalise

animalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of animalize.

Meaning of animalize

Verb

animalize (third-person singular simple present animalizes, present participle animalizing, simple past and past participle animalized)

  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 of animalise

third-person singular presentanimalises
present participleanimalising
past participleanimalised
pastanimalised

Origin of animalise

From animal + -ise.

Questions about animalise

What is animalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Animalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of animalize.

Words near animalise in the dictionary

  1. animalicide
  2. animalicides
  3. animalier
  4. animaliers
  5. animalisation
  6. animalise
  7. animalised
  8. animalises
  9. animalish
  10. animalising
  11. animalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: animalise (page history and authors); animalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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