animalize
verbEtymology From animal (adjective) + -ize.
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:
- Derived terms
- animalization, deanimalize, reanimalize, unanimalized
- Related terms
- zoomorphize