deanimalise

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A form of deanimalize — To make less like an animal or less full of animals.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbdeanimalise (third-person singular simple present deanimalises, present participle deanimalising, simple past and past participle deanimalised)

present singular third person deanimalises · participle present deanimalising · participle past deanimalised · past deanimalised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of deanimalize.

    This " denaturisation " of nature is mirrored in the repressive socioeconomic and political forces which " dehumanise " and " deanimalise " humans and animals alike.

    1979, David A. Paterson, Richard Dudley Ryder, Animals' Rights: A Symposium, page 58
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    The negative evidence against this, the possessing neither mouth nor stomach, does not deanimalise it; as the tape-worm, which no one would dream of supposing a plant, has no such organs.

    1865, The Intellectual observer

    Corporate food chains actively deanimalise the origins of food products through renaming and repackaging (Buller and Cesar, 2008) as the modern diet routinely denies the presence of the animal in meat products (Moussaieff- Masson, 2009).

    2010, Environment & Planning: A. - Volume 42, Issues 5-8 -, page 1876
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