The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animalize \An"i*mal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Animalizing.] [Cf. F. animaliser.]
To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
--Warburton.To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
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To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
--Coleridge.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To represent in the form of an animal. 2 To brutalize. vb. 1 To represent in the form of an animal. 2 To brutalize.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Animalize is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Kiss. It was released in 1984 on Mercury Records. The album marked the only appearance by lead guitarist Mark St. John, who replaced Vinnie Vincent in April 1984.
Usage examples of "animalize".
On the table were Kool Slaa and Schmeer Kase, but the good grandmother who dispensed with such quiet, simple grace these and more familiar delicacies was literally ignorant of Baked Beans, and asked if it was the Lima bean which was employed in that marvellous dish of animalized leguminous farina!
And the fact is, that a mind stupefied and animalized by every bad influence from the hour of birth, spending the whole of every week-day in unreflecting toil, cannot be done much with by a few hours on Sunday.
All the propaganda carried on to-day by the prophets of nature, the experiments in regeneration, the uncooked food, fresh-air cures, sun-bathing, and so on, the whole Rousseauian paraphernalia, had as its goal nothing but the dehumanization, the animalizing of man.
They still descended, moving the rock which waited for them and lowered still deeper, from platform to platform by the animalized slaves.
But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalized nature.
These weren't the kind of people that Alice was used to, of course, because all of them seemed to have an animalized part to their natures.