dehumanize
[dee-hyoo-muh-nahyz or, often, -yoo-]
- to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
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Also especially British, de·hu·man·ise.
Origin of dehumanize
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Examples from the Web for dehumanize
Contemporary Examples
There are a number of words people use to verbally attack, dehumanize, and other transgender women like me.
Epps is, in many ways, a false prophet who uses religion as a means to dehumanize what he calls his “property.”
Michael Fassbender Opens Up About ‘12 Years A Slave,’ Religion, and Assassin’s CreedMarlow Stern
October 16, 2013
The way they justify their abuse is that they dehumanize them.
Such despicable nonsense is spouted for one reason: to dehumanize Palestinians.
Before the killing are the words that dehumanize the “Other.”
Raoul Wallenberg’s World War II Heroism a Lesson for World Doing Nothing About SyriaKati Marton
March 15, 2012
Historical Examples
We dehumanize the universe, but we do not render it the less grand and mysterious.
The Breath of LifeJohn Burroughs
But Mr. Kingsley refuses to dehumanize himself in order to become historian and philosopher.
I combat it as having a tendency to dehumanize the negro, to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man.
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume FourAbraham Lincoln
dehumanize
dehumanise
- to deprive of human qualities
- to render mechanical, artificial, or routine
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Word Origin and History for dehumanize
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