anonymize

English

Alternative forms

• anonymise (UK)

Etymology

From anonymous +‎ -ize.

Verb

anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)

1. (transitive) To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).

   Synonyms: deidentify, depersonalize

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:

     This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]

Derived terms

• anonymizable
• anonymization
• anonymizer
• deanonymize
• de-anonymize
• unanonymize

 

Related terms

• anon
• anonym
• anonymal
• anonymity
• anonymosity
• anonymous
• anonymously
• anonymousness

 

Translations

make or render anonymous

• Catalan: anonimitzar (ca)
• Czech: anonymizovat
• Dutch: anonimiseren (nl)
• French: anonymiser (fr)
• German: anonymisieren (de)
• Italian: anonimizzare
• Portuguese: anonimizar
• Spanish: anonimizar (es)
• Swedish: anonymisera (sv)