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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of animalise.

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Examples

  • Spiritually dead psychopaths and sociopaths need not apply – or so we are told, though at least three totally evil psychos later turn up animalised.

    Zoo City by Lauren Beukes – review 2011

  • As I interpreted it then, this island was inhabited only by these two vivisectors and their animalised victims.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • The determination of the weight and solidity-giving properties is important both for leathers tanned with vegetable tanning extracts and for those treated with synthetic tannins, but the results obtained when using animalised cotton are not directly convertible into figures required for practical purposes.

    Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

  • As I interpreted it then, this island was inhabited only by these two vivisectors and their animalised victims.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

  • -- The costume of Puss In Boots: powdered wig, three-cornered hat, violet or sky-blue coat, dress-sword, etc. N.B. -- The heads of the DOG and the CAT should be only discreetly animalised.

    The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

  • As I interpreted it then, this island was inhabited only by these two vivisectors and their animalised victims.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

  • As I interpreted it then, this island was inhabited only by these two vivisectors and their animalised victims.

    The Hunting of the Man Herbert George 1896

  • But they eat, I observe, a very large proportion of fat, which is of a less animalised nature; and they particularly dislike dry meat, such as that of the Agouti.

    The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845

  • It is possible that the secretion may have dissolved a trace of glue or animalised matter from the balls of paper.

    Insectivorous Plants Charles Darwin 1845

  • Even when the tepid, fetid, and animalised water was served out to us in quantities so minute, that our throats could count it by drops, I never sought to qualify its nauseous taste, or increase its quantity, by the addition of spirits, when spirits were more plentiful than the much-courted water.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

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