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dehumanize
[ dee-hyoo-muh-nahyzor, often, -yoo- ]
verb (used with object)
- 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.
- to deprive of human qualities or attributes; divest of individuality:
Conformity dehumanized him.
dehumanize
/ diːˈhjuːməˌnaɪz /
verb
- to deprive of human qualities
- 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
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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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