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dehumanizes

dehumanizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about dehumanizes

What is dehumanizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Dehumanizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dehumanize.

Words near dehumanizes in the dictionary

  1. dehumanizations
  2. dehumanize
  3. dehumanized
  4. dehumanizer
  5. dehumanizers
  6. dehumanizes
  7. dehumanizing
  8. dehumanizingly
  9. dehumanizings
  10. dehumidification
  11. dehumidifications

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