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
Dotting the history of fast-food are numerous examples of both corporate leaders and franchise owners steering their restaurants towards providing ostensibly more streamlined, though increasingly depersonalized, experiences.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2023
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
Kant abstracted and depersonalized it, and made it the most universal of all his categories, although for Kant himself the Transcendental Ego had no theological implications.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
