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de- + humanize
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dehumanize (third-person singular simple present dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, simple past and past participle dehumanized)
- To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
1968, Stewart L. Udall, 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow, page 3:Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.
2003, Stephen P. Garvey, editor, Beyond Repair? America's Death Penalty, →ISBN, page 141: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.
2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian[1]:A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.
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to take away humanity
- Albanian: çnjerëzoj (sq)
- Armenian: ապամարդկայնացնել (hy) (apamardkaynacʻnel)
- Belarusian: дэгуманізава́ць impf or pf (dehumanizavácʹ)
- Bulgarian: дехуманизи́рам impf or pf (dehumanizíram)
- Catalan: deshumanitzar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 獸化/兽化 (shòuhuà), 非人化 (zh) (fēirénhuà)
- Czech: dehumanizovat impf or pf
- Danish: dehumanisere
- Dutch: ontmenselijken (nl), dehumaniseren
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- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: epäinhimillistää, dehumanisoida, eläimellistää (fi), ottaa pois ihmisarvo
- French: déshumaniser (fr)
- Galician: deshumanizar
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: entmenschen, entmenschlichen (de), dehumanisieren (de)
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
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- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: (make inhuman) gera ómennskan m, (make an insensible beast) gera að tilfinningalausri skepnu (is) f
- Ido: deshumanigar (io)
- Italian: disumanizzare
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
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- Macedonian: дехуманизи́ра impf or pf (dehumanizíra)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dehumanisere (no)
- Polish: odczłowieczać (pl) impf, odczłowieczyć (pl) pf, dehumanizować impf, zdehumanizować pf
- Portuguese: desumanizar (pt)
- Romanian: dezumaniza (ro)
- Russian: обесчелове́чивать (ru) impf (obesčelovéčivatʹ), обесчелове́чить (ru) pf (obesčelovéčitʹ), дегуманизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (degumanizírovatʹ), расчелове́чивать (ru) impf (rasčelovéčivatʹ), расчелове́чить (ru) pf (rasčelovéčitʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дехуманизирати impf or pf, дехуманизовати impf or pf
- Roman: dehumanizirati impf or pf, dehumanizovati impf or pf
- Slovak: dehumanizovať impf or pf
- Slovene: dehumanizirati impf or pf, razčlovečiti pf
- Spanish: deshumanizar (es)
- Swedish: avhumanisera (sv)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: дегуманізува́ти impf or pf (dehumanizuváty), розлю́днювати impf (rozljúdnjuvaty), розлю́днити pf (rozljúdnyty)
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