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inhumanize

inhumanize verb: to make inhuman.

Verb

inhumanize (third-person singular simple present inhumanizes, present participle inhumanizing, simple past and past participle inhumanized)

  1. (transitive) To make inhuman.
    • If medical coverage of perhaps the poorest 10% of Americans could be delivered at low cost […] it would be much better and cost effective ^([sic]) than the ongoing development of an implicitly biased health care and social structure determined to destroy individualism and inhumanize the poor in...2012, Gary Clifford Gibson, Kinetic Military Action and Next Generation Debt, page 368

Forms of inhumanize

third-person singular presentinhumanizes
present participleinhumanizing
past participleinhumanized
pastinhumanized

Origin of inhumanize

From inhuman + -ize.

Questions about inhumanize

What does inhumanize mean?
Inhumanize means to make inhuman.
What part of speech is inhumanize?
Inhumanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of inhumanize?
The past tense of inhumanize is inhumanized.

Words near inhumanize in the dictionary

  1. inhumanely
  2. inhumaneness
  3. inhumanest
  4. inhumanities
  5. inhumanity
  6. inhumanize
  7. inhumanized
  8. inhumanizes
  9. inhumanizing
  10. inhumanly
  11. inhumanness

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