dehumanize
to regard, represent, or treat (a person or group) as less than human: Society still has a tendency to devalue and dehumanize those with disabilities and to suppress their voices.
to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality: Conformity dehumanized him.
Origin of dehumanize
1- Also especially British, de·hu·man·ise .
Other words from dehumanize
- de·hu·man·i·za·tion [dee-hyoo-muh-nahy-zey-shuhn or, often, -yoo-], /diˌhyu məˌnaɪˈzeɪ ʃən or, often, -ˌyu-/, noun
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How to use dehumanize in a sentence
Back at Bessemer, though, workers were being pressed to work harder and longer, and they felt dehumanized.
Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago | Sarah Jaffe | June 30, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewBy that, she includes those who have been dehumanized and devalued, even those whom we might think got what they deserve.
In that instant, in that moment, I’m fearful as a woman, I’m dehumanized as a woman.
Hope that we can all set aside our egos for a moment to see where we might have casually dehumanized someone else.
Jeremy Lin: Despite Fear and Anger After the Atlanta Shootings, There Is Hope | Jeremy Lin with Patricia Sun | March 22, 2021 | TimeWhat becomes clear, in reading Grinker’s book, is that at several points in our recent history, our stories, far from making sense of suffering or easing it, have served to dehumanize people and deprive them of their dignity.
How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness | Balaji Ravichandran | February 12, 2021 | Washington Post
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 Creed | Marlow Stern | October 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTotalitarians dehumanize their enemies; democrats empathize.
The way they justify their abuse is that they dehumanize them.
Wilfred de Bruijn and France’s Scary Gay-Marriage Backlash | Janine di Giovanni | April 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSuch despicable nonsense is spouted for one reason: to dehumanize Palestinians.
What Evangelicals Get Wrong About Israel and the Palestinians | Kirsten Powers | November 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut 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 Four | Abraham LincolnDoes God's law dehumanize the slave, and reduce him to a mere chattel?
A Defence of Virginia | Robert L. DabneyWe dehumanize the universe, but we do not render it the less grand and mysterious.
The Breath of Life | John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for dehumanize
dehumanise
/ (diːˈhjuːməˌnaɪz) /
to deprive of human qualities
to render mechanical, artificial, or routine
Derived forms of dehumanize
- dehumanization or dehumanisation, noun
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