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: a-ni-ma-lize. The stress falls on "ni".

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.