animalize

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: an=i=mal=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

animalize, v. t. [Cf. F. animaliser.].

•  To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.  Warburton.  [1913 Webster]
•  To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.  [1913 Webster]
•  To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.  [1913 Webster]

  "The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

animalize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make (a person) bestial; sensualize.
2 convert to animal substance.

Derivative

animalization n.