animalize

animalize is a   Verb

Definition:

[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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