dehumanize

CEFRC1

/diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/

verb

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01
verb
To treat someone as if they are not fully human.
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verb
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To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.

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War has the terrible power to dehumanize people.
Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.
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.

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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
Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.
1968, Stewart L. Udall, 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow, page 3
To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?
1999, Ursula E. Beitter, The New Europe at the Crossroads, page 129
And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.
2003, Stephen P. Garvey, editor, Beyond Repair? America's Death Penalty, →ISBN, page 141
A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.
2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian

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From de- + humanize.