animalize vs alter

animalize and alter both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
animalize	No	No	Yes	No
alter	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, alter is a hypernym of animalize; that is, alter is a word with a broader meaning than animalize:

Other hypernyms of animalize include change, modify.

animalize (verb)	alter (verb)
become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling	remove the ovaries of
make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman	become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
represent in the form of an animal	cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
	insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
	make an alteration to