animalize

English

Alternative forms

• animalise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

animal +‎ -ize

Verb

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.

Translations

represent in the form of an animal

• Catalan: animalitzar (ca)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: animalizar (es)

brutalize — see brutalize