What is "anthropomorphize"

Usage examples of "anthropomorphize".

Man's tendency, however, is to personify such experiences, to anthropomorphize natural forces.

You know there is this tendency in the West to anthropomorphize and accent the humanity of the gods, the personifications: Yahweh, for example, as either a god of wrath, of justice and punishment, or as a favoring god who is the support of your life, as we read, for example, in the Psalms.

I am a scientist and I don't anthropomorphize animals or their emotions, but I remembered how, purring and kneading me in bed, that tiny-brained creature had gone against her own instincts and kept her claws sheathed.

That being the case, Picard had to wonder what more-than-human characteristics were represented by 0’s weathered features and stout frame, and how much the older Q’s memories may have colored his anthropomorphized portrait of the roguish stranger.

The haunted antique highboy, anthropomorphized by its owner who thinks that it will stop at nothing to ensure its own health and safety.

Bobby tells me that anthropomorphizing animals, regardless of my experiences with them, is a sign of immaturity.

Bobby Halloway would surely sneer at this and say that I am doing worse than anthropomorphizing the mutt, that now I am ascribing superhuman attributes to him.

Even after the monkeys, he remained dubious about this issue of anthropomorphizing animal behavior.

Or, he wondered, am I anthropomorphizing again, longing for individuality where none exists?

And don't imagine for a second that these remarks are merely anthropomorphizing metaphors.

Meredith said, with obviously strained patience, "not to mention anthropomorphizing.

To others, even Molly or Paul, she would seem just another scared tourist anthropomorphizing and exaggerating, the sort who submit reports in lilac ink of grizzlies juggling hedgehogs.

To avoid ever more severe anthropomorphizing, let's switch from muons back to George and Gracie, who now, in addition to their flashing lights, have bright digital clocks on their spacesuits.

A puny, anthropomorphized deity, full of false mystery and nonsense verse.