animalize

animalize

English

Alternative forms

• animalise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

animal +‎ -ize

Verb

animalize (third-person singular simple present animalizes, present participle animalizing, simple past and past participle animalized)

1. To represent in the form of an animal.
2. To brutalize.
3. To convert or produce material rich in animal substance.
   • 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Section III:

     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.

Derived terms

• deanimalize
• animalization

Translations

represent in the form of an animal

Catalan: animalitzar (ca) Polish: animalizować impf Spanish: animalizar (es)

brutalize — see brutalize

See also

• zoomorphize