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de-animalise

de-animalise is the alternative form of deanimalize.

Meaning of deanimalize

Verb

deanimalize (third-person singular simple present deanimalizes, present participle deanimalizing, simple past and past participle deanimalized)

  1. To make less like an animal or less full of animals.
    • He also acknowledged that if, according to the latter-day convictions of Joshua, the only proper and real object of worship was the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, as embodied in the lives and works of men, the tendency of such worship was to deanimalize them, to lift them up into a state in...1892, Hans Stevenson Beattie, Joshua Wray, page 181

Forms of de-animalise

third-person singular presentde-animalises
present participlede-animalising
past participlede-animalised
pastde-animalised

Questions about de-animalise

What is de-animalise the alternative form of?
De-animalise is the alternative form of deanimalize.

Words near de-animalise in the dictionary

  1. de-Americanization
  2. de-Americanize
  3. de-Americanized
  4. de-Americanizes
  5. de-Americanizing
  6. de-animalise
  7. de-animalised
  8. de-animalises
  9. de-animalising
  10. de-animalize
  11. de-animalized

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