Usually means: Strip away inherent human dignity.
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  1. dehumanize: Merriam-Webster
  2. dehumanize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dehumanize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dehumanize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dehumanize: Vocabulary.com
  6. dehumanize: Wordnik
  7. dehumanize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dehumanize: Wiktionary
  9. dehumanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dehumanize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dehumanize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dehumanize, dehumanize: Dictionary.com
  13. dehumanize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dehumanize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dehumanize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dehumanize: Rhymezone
  17. Dehumanize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dehumanize: FreeDictionary.org
  19. dehumanize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dehumanize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. dehumanize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dehumanize: Legal dictionary

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  1. dehumanize: Medical dictionary

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.

Similar:
de-humanize, de-humanise, impersonalize, unhumanize, dehumanise, unhumanise, depersonalize, deperson, dispersonify, depersonate, more...

Opposite:
humanize

Types:
objectify, animalize, minimize, marginalize, stigmatize, denigrate, disenfranchise, more...
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Similar:
de-humanize, de-humanise, impersonalize, unhumanize, dehumanise, unhumanise, depersonalize, deperson, dispersonify, depersonate, more...

Opposite:
humanize

Types:
objectify, animalize, minimize, marginalize, stigmatize, denigrate, disenfranchise, more...



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