Bestialise (Verb)
Meaning
Make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to.
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The regime's propaganda sought to bestialise its enemies, portraying them as savage monsters to justify brutal suppression.
- Decades of poverty and neglect had bestialised the inner cities, leaving residents struggling to survive in desperately harsh conditions.
- Wartime atrocities had bestialised the treatment of prisoners, with captives facing unimaginable cruelty and abuse.
- The harsh realities of survival in the wilderness had begun to bestialise the stranded hikers, who were now reduced to a desperate fight for food and shelter.
- Extreme desperation and hunger had bestialised the behaviour of some villagers, who now saw their neighbours as potential threats to their very survival.