Deanimalize

Quick meaning: Deanimalize is a verb meaning To make less like an animal or less full of animals.

Meaning

To make less like an animal or less full of animals.

Example Sentences

Impersonal societies dehumanize themselves, maybe even deanimalize themselves.

Generally we deanimalize our image of meats like pig and cattle by giving them terms like "pork" and "beef".

While talking about the stray dogs of Kolkata, a city that has not yet deanimalized its public spaces, we need to imagine a very different spatial relationship between nonhuman and human animals.

Even in aristocratic Japan and China, where until recently breasts were bound tightly to flatten them out, it was acknowledged that this practice attempted to deanimalize the woman and to make her less obviously an object of lust.

Word Forms

• deanimalizes
• deanimalizing
• deanimalized
• de-animalize
• deanimalise
• de-animalise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deanimalise, de-animalize, de-animalise, bestialize, unhumanise, unhumanize.

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