animalize

• Глагол, означающий делать жестоким, звериным или похожим на животное; низводить до уровня животного.

A verb meaning to make brutal, bestial, or like an animal; to degrade to the level of an animal.

1. Represent as an animalC2formal

   To depict or represent something or someone in the form of an animal.

   Очеловечивать в виде животного

   • The artist animalized the human figures in his surrealist paintings.
   • In the fable, the storyteller animalized the virtues and vices of humans.
   • The cartoonist animalized the politician as a sly fox.

   Antonymshumanize

2. Make brutal or inhumanC2formal

   To cause someone to become brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman in behavior or character.

   Озвереть

   • The harsh conditions of war can animalize even the most gentle souls.
   • Prolonged isolation and deprivation can animalize a person's nature.
   • The regime's propaganda sought to animalize the enemy in the eyes of the public.

   Synonymsdebasedegradedehumanize

   Antonymscivilizeelevateennoblehumanizerefine

3. Become insensitiveC2formal

   To become brutal, insensitive, or unfeeling.

   Огрубеть

   • After years of abuse, he began to animalize, losing all empathy.
   • The constant exposure to violence caused him to animalize over time.
   • She feared that the relentless pressure would cause her to animalize.

   Synonymscallousdehumanizehardennumb

   Antonymshumanizerefinesensitize