depersonalize
verb (used with object)
to make impersonal.
depersonalized
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past participleof depersonalize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof depersonalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
depersonalizeverb (used with object)to make impersonal.
Example Sentences
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His criticisms of Democrats tend to include the depersonalized terms “policy choices” and “policy decisions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Similarly unavoidable is the depersonalized quality of the blank form of brute steel: Smith’s cube reveals no marks of the artist’s hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
The messages on social media blaming her family for its own tragedy are typical of depersonalized Internet viciousness.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2021
I anticipated adding to my already considerable Zoom fatigue, feeling rushed and depersonalized.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2020
Never dead to his Calvinist heritage, he sought to establish a providential relationship between the Deity and man's fortunes, not a little chilled in the presence of the virtually depersonalized Deity of the Enlightenment.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
