| Pronunciation: | | 'anumu`lIz
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [v] become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
- [v] make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
- [v] represent in the form of an animal
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ANIMALIZE is a 9 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | animalise, animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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| | See Also: | | alter, change, interpret, represent |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \An"i*mal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Animalized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Animalizing}.] [Cf. F. animaliser.]
1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in
animal form. --Warburton.
2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of
assimilation.
3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a
lower animal; to sensualize.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the
animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
--Coleridge.
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