animalize

Other forms of animalize

past tense

animalized·

present participle

animalizing·

third person

animalizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about animalize

What does animalize mean?

animalize means "represent in the form of an animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in animalize?

animalize has 4 syllables and divides as a-ni-ma-lize under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for animalize?

Close synonyms include animalise, brutalize, brutalise, animalise, brutalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is animalize a common word?

animalize is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.