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- verb Alternative form of
animalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
- verb represent in the form of an animal
- verb become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
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It is a mistake, then, to take the view adopted by a previous correspondent of this paper; to consider the machines as identities, to animalise them, and to anticipate their final triumph over mankind.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868
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