Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To represent or portray as an animal or beast.
- transitive verb To reduce to a bestial condition; deprave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make like a beast; bring or reduce to the state or condition of a beast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to make like a
beast - verb to
bring orreduce to the state or condition of a beast
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to
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Examples
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He was even caricatured and abused for his attempt to "bestialize" his species by the introduction into their systems of diseased matter from the cow's udder.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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As was the case in World Wars I and II, we are up against sociopathic sub-humans who despise the common man, are capable of great cruelty brought on by their indifference to human misery and whose ultimate plan is to dehumanize and bestialize humanity.
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As was the case in World Wars I and II, we are up against sociopathic sub-humans who despise the common man, are capable of great cruelty brought on by their indifference to human misery and whose ultimate plan is to dehumanize and bestialize humanity.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I believe the primary purpose of a certain force I nether fully understand nor wish to understand was to separate man from his higher self, to bestialize him, to do dirt on him and this force has legions of accolytes because it is the province of the weak-willed, the ones who prefer the easy solution and are attracted by bells and whistles.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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If you're a Bohm or a Charley, you may trivialize or vulgarize or bestialize your wedding, but solemnize it you don't, for that is not "up to date."
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
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-- Possibly; but even a beast seeks privacy at certain junctures; and to deny all privacy tends to bestialize human beings.
The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890
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A zeal for scientific knowledge consumed him, keeping him on target to overthrow God and bestialize humanity.
Drudge Retort 2009
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Science and Classical artistic life are good, and the contrary, such as today's popular cultures, are bad per se in respect to their tendency to cause populations to debase, even bestialize themselves, as fascists do, as the violent existentialists of 1968 did, that to the ruinous effects on the culture of the world as a whole, today.
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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