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zoomorphizing

zoomorphizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about zoomorphizing

What is zoomorphizing the present participle and gerund of?
Zoomorphizing is the present participle and gerund of zoomorphize.

Words near zoomorphizing in the dictionary

  1. zoomorphism
  2. zoomorphisms
  3. zoomorphize
  4. zoomorphized
  5. zoomorphizes
  6. zoomorphizing
  7. zoomorphological
  8. zoomorphology
  9. zoomorphosed
  10. zoomorphoses
  11. zoomorphosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoomorphizing (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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