overhumanize
English
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editEtymology
editFrom over- + humanize. Equivalent to over- + human + -ize.
Verb
editoverhumanize (third-person singular simple present overhumanizes, present participle overhumanizing, simple past and past participle overhumanized)
- (transitive) To overly humanize a nonhuman or subhuman entity.
- 1998 May 8, Christopher Paris, “Godzilla spotted”, in alt.movies.monster[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-24:
- Ironically, Americans have been bitching for years about "man in a rubber suit" Toho Godzilla, and then when an American version finally materializes, it looks more like a man in a suit (thanks to the overhumanized anatomy) than any previous Godzilla.