Definition of "bestializes" [bestializes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bestialize. (verb)

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• "The West bestializes Zarqawi, although he is genuinely a bad guy no doubt about it."
• "Thus we catch the sweep of this grand experience of and with Circe; if she governs, she bestializes man; if she serves, she refreshes and restores."
• "It may, however, be said in advance that Circe is not a man-eater, but a man-transformer; she is a new phase of the great experience, she bestializes; she is negative, not so much from without as from within, not consuming the human shape but transmuting it into that of an animal."