Definition of "animalize" [an•i•mal•ize]

• To cause (another) to behave like an animal. (verb-transitive)
• To depict or represent in the form of an animal. (verb-transitive)

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• "I mean, to kind of animalize them, much like they did referring to Venus and Serena Williams that day."
• "Moreover, "Sensory associations helped animalize blacks," which "probably offered whites powerful rationalizations for sexual exploitation." [p. 19]"
• "Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it: this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into."