verb

• Make into or like an animal.

  ‘The ceremonial undressing and redressing, which Ian uses in an attempt to entice Cate, seems to replace and animalise their colloquial discourse.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The anthropomorphism of animals moves the two closer together, humanizing the animals and/or animalizing the humans.’
  • ‘The reader is compelled to include the Devil himself who conventionally appears with animalized features such as horns.’
  • ‘Want to know why the parents in The Grandmother speak in animalized yelps?’