dehumanize
verb (used with object)
to regard, represent, or treat (a person or group) as less than human.
have dehumanized
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present perfectof dehumanize.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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Kennan believes that American leaders have excessively "militarized" policy toward the U.S.S.R. partly because they have "dehumanized" their Soviet counterparts.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wants to break up America's big corporations and other mammoth institutions because they have dehumanized life and robbed the individual of his power of decision and sense of purpose.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have dehumanized the world, and allowed it to ride rough shod over human life.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
He seems to imply that to have lost the power of shedding tears is to have dehumanized oneself and put oneself outside the pale.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
The tide was incoming, that was all, and the waves currycombed the beach with a swishing monotony that would have dehumanized an ostler.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
