anthropomorphize
verb (used with or without object)
to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.).
anthropomorphise
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a variation of
anthropomorphize.
Example Sentences
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There’s no point in trying to anthropomorphise this.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2020
If Apple customers have an embarrassing tendency to anthropomorphise their gadgets, that is because Apple has explored the possibilities of the human mind and body more thoroughly than any of its competitors.
From Salon ● May 11, 2013
Blackfish makes no attempt to anthropomorphise its whales and it doesn't need to.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2013
The robot's face they left as a visor, smooth and featureless, on the premise that humans will anthropomorphise anything.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
So we spiritualise the material universe, and afterwards, by an incongruous consistency, anthropomorphise spirit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
