animalize
/ˈænɪməˌlaɪz/
verb
- To make someone or something behave like an animal, or to treat them as if they were an animal.
- The propaganda aimed to animalize the enemy and strip them of their humanity.
- The harsh conditions of the prison seemed to animalize the inmates.
- Some horror movies try to animalize their villains by showing them eating raw meat.
- To represent or describe something in animal form.
- The sculptor animalized the abstract concept of greed into a snarling beast.
- In the fable, the writer animalizes the sun and moon as a lion and a wolf.
- The cartoonist chose to animalize the politicians as farm animals.
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