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deanimalise

deanimalise 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 deanimalise

third-person singular presentdeanimalises
present participledeanimalising
past participledeanimalised
pastdeanimalised

Questions about deanimalise

What is deanimalise the alternative form of?
Deanimalise is the alternative form of deanimalize.

Words near deanimalise in the dictionary

  1. Deang
  2. Deangela
  3. DeAngelis
  4. DeAngelises
  5. DeAngelo
  6. deanimalise
  7. deanimalised
  8. deanimalises
  9. deanimalising
  10. deanimalize
  11. deanimalized

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