What does dehumanize mean?

Definitions for dehumanize
diˈhyu məˌnaɪz or, often, -ˈyu-de·hu·man·ize

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dehumanize, dehumaniseverb

    deprive of human qualities

    "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"

  2. dehumanize, dehumaniseverb

    make mechanical or routine

Wiktionary

  1. dehumanizeverb

    To take away humanity, to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes.

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  1. dehumanize

    Dehumanize refers to the act of degrading or denying the dignity, empathy, and humanity of a person or a group of people. It involves treating individuals not as human beings with feelings, needs, and rights, but as objects or animals. Dehumanization often leads to cases of discrimination, violation of human rights, or acts of violence and cruelty.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dehumanizeverb

    to divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dehumanize in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dehumanize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of dehumanize in a Sentence

  1. Anthony Brown:

    In 2019, we should not have to explain the seriousness of using this epithet, this hateful word was, and is still callously used in an effort to dehumanize black Americans.

  2. Marjorie Funderburg:

    You can dehumanize people when they are just abstract concepts to you, affirmative action, voting rights — these are issues that you can depersonalize. But you can't depersonalize your cousin's husband at the barbecue who asks you to pass the ketchup. It's hard to dismiss or take a stance against love when it's in your face.

  3. Beverly Tillery:

    Every week, there is another news event that is equally triggering and terrifying, that leaves people not knowing where they can be safe. They are left with an uncertain future in this country, when you dehumanize people and try to erase them completely from existence, it emboldens those who hate this community, and no one is really stopping them, aside from the community rising up.

  4. Lisa Ling:

    When the stories and histories of a people are excluded from a country's narrative it becomes so easy to overlook and even dehumanize an entire population, and while the inclusion of this history would go a long way with a diaspora as diverse and vast as ours, it can't just be a chapter in a textbook.

  5. Sedef Cakmak:

    A concerted effort is underway to dehumanize the streets, to create a society stripped of its reactions, for all its flaws, Turkey has a certain culture of democracy which there's an effort underway to destroy. People will react to that in whatever form.

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