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ANIMALISE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
Synonyms:
animalise; animalize; brutalise; brutalize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "animalise" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
Example:
Life in the camps had brutalized him
Synonyms:
animalise; animalize; brutalise; brutalize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "animalise" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Represent in the form of an animal
Synonyms:
animalise; animalize
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "animalise" is one way to...):
interpret; represent (create an image or likeness of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
animal (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
