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dehumanize

[ dee-hyoo-muh-nahyzor, often, -yoo- ]

verb (used with object)

, de·hu·man·ized, de·hu·man·iz·ing.
  1. to regard, represent, or treat (a person or group) as less than human:

    Society still has a tendency to devalue and dehumanize those with disabilities and to suppress their voices.

  2. to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality:

    Conformity dehumanized him.



dehumanize

/ diːˈhjuːməˌnaɪz /

verb

  1. to deprive of human qualities
  2. to render mechanical, artificial, or routine


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Derived Forms

  • deˌhumaniˈzation, noun

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Other Words From

  • de·hu·man·i·za·tion [dee-hyoo-m, uh, -nahy-, zey, -sh, uh, n, -yoo-], noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dehumanize1

First recorded in 1810–20; de- + humanize

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Example Sentences

There are a number of words people use to verbally attack, dehumanize, and other transgender women like me.

Epps is, in many ways, a false prophet who uses religion as a means to dehumanize what he calls his “property.”

Totalitarians dehumanize their enemies; democrats empathize.

The way they justify their abuse is that they dehumanize them.

Such despicable nonsense is spouted for one reason: to dehumanize Palestinians.

But Mr. Kingsley refuses to dehumanize himself in order to become historian and philosopher.

I combat it as having a tendency to dehumanize the negro, to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man.

Does God's law dehumanize the slave, and reduce him to a mere chattel?

We dehumanize the universe, but we do not render it the less grand and mysterious.

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