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de-humanize

de-humanize is the alternative spelling of dehumanize.

Meaning of dehumanize

Verb

dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, simple past and past participle dehumanized)

  1. (transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
    • In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535

Forms of de-humanize

third-person singular presentde-humanizes
present participlede-humanizing
past participlede-humanized
pastde-humanized

Questions about de-humanize

What is de-humanize the alternative spelling of?
De-humanize is the alternative spelling of dehumanize.

Words near de-humanize in the dictionary

  1. de-hexed
  2. de-hexes
  3. de-hexing
  4. de-humanise
  5. de-humanises
  6. de-humanize
  7. de-humanizes
  8. de-ice
  9. de-iced
  10. de-icer
  11. de-icers

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