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anonymise

anonymise is the alternative form of anonymize.

Meaning of anonymize

Verb

anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)

  1. (transitive) To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).
    • This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]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

Forms of anonymise

third-person singular presentanonymises
present participleanonymising
past participleanonymised
pastanonymised

Words formed from anonymise

Questions about anonymise

What is anonymise the alternative form of?
Anonymise is the alternative form of anonymize.

Words near anonymise in the dictionary

  1. anonymas
  2. anonymice
  3. anonymisable
  4. anonymisation
  5. anonymisations
  6. anonymise
  7. anonymised
  8. anonymiser
  9. anonymisers
  10. anonymises
  11. anonymising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anonymise (page history and authors); anonymize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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