MEANING
To cause brutal behavior or subject someone to treatment that denies their humanity.
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Words that belong together
- bestialize a captive
- bestialized by violence
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The regime sought to bestialize its captives through relentless humiliation.
He feared that repeated violence would bestialize those who carried it out.
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Word forms
- Base
- bestialize
- Past tense
- bestialized
- Past participle
- bestialized
- Present participle
- bestializing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- bestialize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are bestializing
- Present perfect
- have/has bestialized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been bestializing
- Past
- bestialized
- Past continuous
- was/were bestializing
- Past perfect
- had bestialized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been bestializing
- Future
- will bestialize
- Future continuous
- will be bestializing
- Future perfect
- will have bestialized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been bestializing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: bestialize; bestializes; bestialized; bestialized; bestializing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: bestializes.
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