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anonymize

anonymize verb: to make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).

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

Synonyms of anonymize

Forms of anonymize

third-person singular presentanonymizes
present participleanonymizing
past participleanonymized
pastanonymized
alternative UKanonymise

Origin of anonymize

From anonymous + -ize.

Words formed from anonymize

Questions about anonymize

What does anonymize mean?
Anonymize means to make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).
What part of speech is anonymize?
Anonymize is a verb.
What is the past tense of anonymize?
The past tense of anonymize is anonymized.

Words near anonymize in the dictionary

  1. anonymities
  2. anonymity
  3. anonymizable
  4. anonymization
  5. anonymizations
  6. anonymize
  7. anonymized
  8. anonymizer
  9. anonymizers
  10. anonymizes
  11. anonymizing

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