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anonymized

anonymized is the simple past and past participle 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

Adjective

anonymized (not comparable)

  1. (claims or statements) Having had identifying information stripped, such that it cannot be linked to the person who owned or made it

Words formed from anonymized

Questions about anonymized

What does anonymized mean?
Anonymized means having had identifying information stripped, such that it cannot be linked to the person who owned or made it.
What is anonymized the simple past and past participle of?
Anonymized is the simple past and past participle of anonymize.
What part of speech is anonymized?
Anonymized is an adjective.

Words near anonymized in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anonymized (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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