humanize
verb (used with object)
to make humane, kind, or gentle.
has humanized
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present perfectof humanize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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No other movie has humanized the often one-dimensional gladiators of ski films as effectively.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2013
It’s not just that the actor David Wilson Barnes has humanized the part of Max, the kind of fearsome plain-speaker generally found in Molière.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2011
All that has humanized the formidable family and made the Bushes stronger at the gut-level game of connecting emotionally with voters in the crunch of a close campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than anyone else, he has humanized the most complex and mechanized war in history.
From Time Magazine Archive
Man has more and more lived with his fellow-men, and it is society that has humanized him—the development of society into an infinitely various school of discipline and ordered skill.
From On Being Human by Woodrow Wilson
