animalize

• 动词，指使人变得残忍、野蛮或像动物一样；也指使人丧失人性，把人降低到动物的水平。

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.

   兽化表现

   • 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.

   反义词humanize

2. Make brutal or inhumanC2formal

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

   使变得野蛮

   • 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.

   同义词debasedegradedehumanize

   反义词civilizeelevateennoblehumanizerefine

3. Become insensitiveC2formal

   To become brutal, insensitive, or unfeeling.

   变得麻木不仁

   • 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.

   同义词callousdehumanizehardennumb

   反义词humanizerefinesensitize