The act or process of making something animal-like; causing something to take on animal characteristics.
Present participle of 'animalise,' showing the ongoing action of reducing or transforming something toward animal status.
When reformers in the 1800s spoke of 'animalising' influences like poverty or bad factories, they were describing how harsh conditions supposedly brought out people's base instincts—a theory that drove social reform movements.
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