animalize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: animalize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for animalize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
animalize v represent in the form of an animal [syn: animalize, animalise] make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" Synonym(s): brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling Synonym(s): brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Animalize \An"imalize\, 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.