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animalize

animalize verb: to represent in the form of an animal.

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 animalize

third-person singular presentanimalizes
present participleanimalizing
past participleanimalized
pastanimalized
alternative formanimalise

Origin of animalize

From animal (adjective) + -ize.

Words formed from animalize

Questions about animalize

What does animalize mean?
Animalize means to represent in the form of an animal.
What part of speech is animalize?
Animalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of animalize?
The past tense of animalize is animalized.

Words near animalize in the dictionary

  1. animalivorous
  2. animalivorousness
  3. animalivory
  4. animalization
  5. animalizations
  6. animalize
  7. animalized
  8. animalizes
  9. animalizing
  10. animalkind
  11. animall

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