dehumanize
verb (used with object)
to regard, represent, or treat (a person or group) as less than human.
was dehumanizing
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past progressiveof dehumanize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I’m like… so, I go off because I’m already just stressed, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get on this flight, and it was just gross and it was dehumanizing.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2020
Advocates criticized the letter, saying it was dehumanizing and didn’t offer solutions.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2020
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, three players — Dave Meggyesy, George Sauer and Chip Oliver — quit in their 20s, saying pro football was dehumanizing.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
People who have survived an attempt and gone public often say the treatment they got afterward — locked down in a hospital ward, with little chance to confide in a sympathetic caregiver — was dehumanizing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2014
Employees at Taiyuan said the treatment was dehumanizing.
From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2012
