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zoomorphise

zoomorphise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoomorphize.

Meaning of zoomorphize

Verb

zoomorphize (third-person singular simple present zoomorphizes, present participle zoomorphizing, simple past and past participle zoomorphized)

  1. (transitive) To endow with animal qualities.
    • This provides for greater communicability but it also introduces new pitfalls, for the possibility of anthropomorphizing birds is at least as great as that of a zoomorphizing man.1964, Margaret Mead, Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Forms of zoomorphise

third-person singular presentzoomorphises
present participlezoomorphising
past participlezoomorphised
pastzoomorphised

Questions about zoomorphise

What is zoomorphise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Zoomorphise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoomorphize.

Words near zoomorphise in the dictionary

  1. zoomings
  2. Zoomland
  3. zoomorph
  4. zoomorphic
  5. zoomorphically
  6. zoomorphise
  7. zoomorphised
  8. zoomorphises
  9. zoomorphising
  10. zoomorphism
  11. zoomorphisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoomorphise (page history and authors); zoomorphize (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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