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Bestialize

Bestialize \Bes"tial*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestializing.] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.

The process of bestializing humanity.
--Hare.

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bestialize

alt. 1 to make like a beast 2 to bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast vb. 1 to make like a beast 2 to bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast

WordNet
bestialize

v. make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to [syn: bestialise]

Usage examples of "bestialize".

What men are these, who, clamoring to be free, Would bestialize the world to what they be?

Where it was Hearst’s tactic to bestialize the public, they would civilize them, she thought grandly if somewhat uneasily.

If he was destined to remain a castaway for a long time, he had to maintain good manners and not become bestialized.

Finding himself in intimacy with his own body, and immersing himself in the liquid, which was also matter, had somehow bestialized him and led him to those thoughts that are peculiar to insane and animal natures.

Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a fury in a cage.

But the warriors they had created by humanizing animals, and perhaps, in secret by bestializing men, were more loyal.