deanimalize
verbEtymology
From de- + animal + -ize.
Definitions
To make less like an animal or less full of animals.
- Impersonal societies dehumanize themselves, maybe even deanimalize themselves.
- Even in aristocratic Japan and China, where until recently breasts were bound tightly to flatten them out, it was acknowledged that this practice attempted to deanimalize the woman and to make her less obviously an object of lust.
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