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Meanings of animalize in English

Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling.

        Usage of animalize in English
        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
        Animalize through the time