deanimalise

English

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of deanimalize
   • 1865, The Intellectual observer:

     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.

   • 1979, David A. Paterson, Richard Dudley Ryder, Animals' Rights: A Symposium, page 58:

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

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

     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).