animalize

English

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Etymology

From animal (adjective) +‎ -ize.[1]

Verb

animalize (third-person singular simple present animalizes, present participle animalizing, simple past and past participle animalized)

  1. To represent in the form of an animal.
  2. To brutalize.
  3. To convert or produce material rich in animal substance.
    • 1805, Charles Hall, The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States, Section III:
      The weaknesses or disorder of the bowels seem chiefly to be occasioned by the poor, watery, meagre, vegetable diet of the children and of their mothers. The latter, from the use of this diet, have their milk poor, and not sufficiently animalised.

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References

  1. ^ animalize, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Portuguese

Verb

animalize

  1. inflection of animalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative