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Verb [English]

IPA: /diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/ [UK] Forms: dehumanizes [present, singular, third-person], dehumanizing [participle, present], dehumanized [participle, past], dehumanized [past]
Etymology: From de- + humanize. Etymology templates: {{af|en|de-|humanize}} de- + humanize Head templates: {{en-verb}} dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, simple past and past participle dehumanized)
  1. (transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize. Tags: transitive Synonyms: de-humanize, de-humanise, dehumanise [UK] Derived forms: dehumanization, dehumanizer, undehumanized Related terms: dewomanize Translations (to take away humanity): çnjerëzoj (Albanian), ապամարդկայնացնել (apamardkaynacʻnel) (Armenian), дэгуманізава́ць (dehumanizavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), дехуманизи́рам (dehumanizíram) [imperfective, perfective] (Bulgarian), deshumanitzar (Catalan), 獸化 /兽化 (shòuhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 非人化 (fēirénhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), dehumanizovat [imperfective, perfective] (Czech), dehumanisere (Danish), ontmenselijken (Dutch), dehumaniseren (Dutch), epäinhimillistää (Finnish), dehumanisoida (Finnish), eläimellistää (Finnish), ottaa pois ihmisarvo (Finnish), déshumaniser (French), deshumanizar (Galician), entmenschen (German), entmenschlichen (German), dehumanisieren (German), gera ómennskan (english: make inhuman) [masculine] (Icelandic), gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu (english: make an insensible beast) [feminine] (Icelandic), deshumanigar (Ido), disumanizzare (Italian), дехуманизи́ра (dehumanizíra) [imperfective, perfective] (Macedonian), dehumanisere (Norwegian Bokmål), odczłowieczać [imperfective] (Polish), odczłowieczyć [perfective] (Polish), dehumanizować [imperfective] (Polish), zdehumanizować [perfective] (Polish), desumanizar (Portuguese), dezumaniza (Romanian), обесчелове́чивать (obesčelovéčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обесчелове́чить (obesčelovéčitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), дегуманизи́ровать (degumanizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), расчелове́чивать (rasčelovéčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), расчелове́чить (rasčelovéčitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), дехуманизирати [Cyrillic, imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), дехуманизовати [Cyrillic, imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), dehumanizirati [Roman, imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), dehumanizovati [Roman, imperfective, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), dehumanizovať [imperfective, perfective] (Slovak), dehumanizirati [imperfective, perfective] (Slovene), razčlovečiti [perfective] (Slovene), deshumanizar (Spanish), avhumanisera (Swedish), дегуманізува́ти (dehumanizuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian), розлю́днювати (rozljúdnjuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), розлю́днити (rozljúdnyty) [perfective] (Ukrainian)

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          "ref": "1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535:",
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          "text": "To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?",
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          "text": "From this sort of work, we learn to have a contempt for sadism, for anything that dehumanizes, and to have compassion for the everyday people who pay the price for the designs of proud and evil men.",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "word": "eläimellistää"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "word": "ottaa pois ihmisarvo"
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "déshumaniser"
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "entmenschen"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "entmenschlichen"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "dehumanisieren"
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          "code": "is",
          "english": "make inhuman",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gera ómennskan"
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          "code": "is",
          "english": "make an insensible beast",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu"
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "disumanizzare"
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          "roman": "dehumanizíra",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "word": "дехуманизи́ра"
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "dehumanisere"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "odczłowieczać"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "odczłowieczyć"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "word": "dehumanizować"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "zdehumanizować"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "word": "dezumaniza"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obesčelovéčivatʹ",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "word": "обесчелове́чивать"
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "roman": "degumanizírovatʹ",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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            "perfective"
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          "word": "дегуманизи́ровать"
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "расчелове́чивать"
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "roman": "rozljúdnjuvaty",
          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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          "sense": "to take away humanity",
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      "expansion": "dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, simple past and past participle dehumanized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "dewomanize"
    }
  ],
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        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Albanian translations",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535:",
          "text": "In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Stewart L. Udall, 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow, page 3:",
          "text": "Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Ursula E. Beitter, The New Europe at the Crossroads, page 129:",
          "text": "To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Stephen P. Garvey, editor, Beyond Repair? America's Death Penalty, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 February 11, David Brooks, “How to Stay Sane in Brutalizing Times”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "From this sort of work, we learn to have a contempt for sadism, for anything that dehumanizes, and to have compassion for the everyday people who pay the price for the designs of proud and evil men.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humanity",
          "humanity"
        ],
        [
          "human",
          "human"
        ],
        [
          "impersonalize",
          "impersonalize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "de-humanize"
    },
    {
      "word": "de-humanise"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanise"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "çnjerëzoj"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "apamardkaynacʻnel",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "ապամարդկայնացնել"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dehumanizavácʹ",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дэгуманізава́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dehumanizíram",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дехуманизи́рам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "deshumanitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shòuhuà",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "獸化 /兽化"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fēirénhuà",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "非人化"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanizovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "dehumanisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "ontmenselijken"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "dehumaniseren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "epäinhimillistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "dehumanisoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "eläimellistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "ottaa pois ihmisarvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "déshumaniser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "deshumanizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "entmenschen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "entmenschlichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "dehumanisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "make inhuman",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gera ómennskan"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "english": "make an insensible beast",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "deshumanigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "disumanizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "dehumanizíra",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дехуманизи́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "dehumanisere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odczłowieczać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odczłowieczyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanizować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zdehumanizować"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "desumanizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "dezumaniza"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obesčelovéčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обесчелове́чивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obesčelovéčitʹ",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "обесчелове́чить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "degumanizírovatʹ",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дегуманизи́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasčelovéčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "расчелове́чивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rasčelovéčitʹ",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "расчелове́чить"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дехуманизирати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дехуманизовати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanizirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanizovati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanizovať"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dehumanizirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "razčlovečiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "deshumanizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "word": "avhumanisera"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dehumanizuváty",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "дегуманізува́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rozljúdnjuvaty",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "розлю́днювати"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "rozljúdnyty",
      "sense": "to take away humanity",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "розлю́днити"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dehumanize"
}

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