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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bestialize.

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Examples

  • The West bestializes Zarqawi, although he is genuinely a bad guy no doubt about it.

    The Self-Fisking of Robert (again) Zoe Brain 2006

  • The West bestializes Zarqawi, although he is genuinely a bad guy no doubt about it.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • Thus we catch the sweep of this grand experience of and with Circe; if she governs, she bestializes man; if she serves, she refreshes and restores.

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

  • It may, however, be said in advance that Circe is not a man-eater, but a man-transformer; she is a new phase of the great experience, she bestializes; she is negative, not so much from without as from within, not consuming the human shape but transmuting it into that of an animal.

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

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