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Meanings of animalise in English

Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.

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Examples for "brutalize"
Examples for "brutalize"
1
I thought of how Merril used to beat and brutalize Faunita.
Escape
2
I used those snow days to train and brutalize myself.
Rock and Ice Magazine
3
The prison almost invariably tends to brutalize men and breeds bitterness and blank despair.
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
4
To brutalize a man's conscience seemed to him worse than to murder his body.
The Case of Richard Meynell
5
How habitual sin and misery suffice to brutalize "the human face divine"!
For the Term of His Natural Life
1
And for many of the others, it could only brutalise them further.
The Only Victor
2
They shared experiences of how drug policies stigmatise and brutalise farmers.
The Guardian
3
We encourage each other in vindictiveness and hypocrisy, we cow and brutalise the transgressor.
The Child of the Dawn
4
He says law enforcement and immigration officials have continued to brutalise and wrongfully detain him.
Reuters
5
Johann continued to brutalise because he had been able to kill his mother without remorse.
White corridor
1
Instead of saying that we Americanize them, we should confess that we animalize them.
Woman and the New Race
2
Anything that animalizes men, is a menace to the life of the state and prevents the purpose of government.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
3
Even the intellect he shows seems actually animalized, and we shudder at its subtlety, as at the cunning of a reptile.
Lectures on Art
4
From all this they deduced a lofty theory which embraces all mankind, and all that portion of creation which may be animalized.
The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy
5
Embryos may be animalized by growth in the presence of zinc ions, resulting in cilia averaging nearly twice the normal 20 microns length.
Pubmed
Usage of animalise in English
1
N.B.-Theheads of the DOG and the CAT should be only discreetly animalised.
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
2
A horrible fancy came into my head that Moreau, after animalising these men, had infected their dwarfed brains with a kind of deification of himself.
The Island of Dr. Moreau