"anonymize" meaning in English

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "anonymous",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "anonymous + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From anonymous + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anonymizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anonymizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anonymized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anonymized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "anonymizable"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymization"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymizer"
        },
        {
          "word": "deanonymize"
        },
        {
          "word": "de-anonymize"
        },
        {
          "word": "unanonymize"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11",
          "text": "This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data)."
      ],
      "id": "en-anonymize-en-verb-4nR2AlTN",
      "links": [
        [
          "anonymous",
          "anonymous"
        ],
        [
          "data",
          "data"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "anon"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonym"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymal"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymity"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymosity"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymous"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymously"
        },
        {
          "word": "anonymousness"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deidentify"
        },
        {
          "word": "depersonalize"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "anonymise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonimitzar"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonymizovat"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonimiseren"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonymiser"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonymisieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonimizzare"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonimizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonimizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "make or render anonymous",
          "word": "anonymisera"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "anonymize"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "anonymizable"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymization"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymizer"
    },
    {
      "word": "deanonymize"
    },
    {
      "word": "de-anonymize"
    },
    {
      "word": "unanonymize"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "anonymous",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "anonymous + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From anonymous + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "anonymizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anonymizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anonymized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "anonymized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "anon"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonym"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymal"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymity"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymosity"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymous"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymously"
    },
    {
      "word": "anonymousness"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11",
          "text": "This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anonymous",
          "anonymous"
        ],
        [
          "data",
          "data"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deidentify"
        },
        {
          "word": "depersonalize"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "anonymise"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonimitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonymizovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonimiseren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonymiser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonymisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonimizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonimizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonimizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "make or render anonymous",
      "word": "anonymisera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anonymize"
}