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😠 To make less human 🐾 To make like an animal
to animalize

to animalize

9.0
Show something as an animal, for example making a person look like a wolf
  • verb
  • /ˈænɪməˌlaɪz/
translation icon : animalizar
  • The artist chose to animalize the characters in her illustrations, giving them animal features and vibrant colors.

Examples

  • In the movie, they animalized the main character, transforming him into a lion to symbolize his courage.

  • The children's book aims to animalize various professions, depicting doctors and teachers as friendly animals.

  • Let's talk about an animalized study so much the Syrian hamster and talk about say the orienting movements he makes.

How Animal-like

to turn into
890 2.2
to animalize
9.0

Surface Forms

animalize infinitive
animalized past
animalized past participle
animalizing present participle
animalizes third person singular

Morphology

animalize = animal (transparent) = animal + ize

The verb is a straightforward derivation from the noun 'animal' with the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' meaning 'to make or represent as an animal'.

Etymology

Animalize comes from animal, which goes back to Latin anima meaning 'breath' or 'life', and is the same root as animate. So to animalize something is to give it an animal form or turn it into an animal-like being, as when a cartoon makes objects into talking animals.