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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 an·i·mal·ize /ˈænəməˌlaɪz/
 (vt.)使動物化

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 An·i·mal·ize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Animalized p. pr. & vb. n. Animalizing.]
 1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
 2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation.
 3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize.
    The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.   --Coleridge.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 animalize
      v 1: represent in the form of an animal [syn: animalise]
      2: make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had
         brutalized him" [syn: brutalize, brutalise, animalise]
      3: become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling [syn: brutalize,
          brutalise, animalise]