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Meanings of animalize 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
        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
        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