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[ US /dɪˈhjumənaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. deprive of human qualities
    Life in poverty has dehumanized them
  2. make mechanical or routine

How To Use dehumanize In A Sentence

  • Yet while pilotless drones are dehumanised and impersonalised, mobile phone ring tones and screensavers are instances of the humanity and personality of the people behind technology.
  • In the face of dehumanization he remained human - and did not dehumanize his fellow humanity to try and get ahead or gain an advantage for himself.
  • One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.
  • We have thus been thoroughly and systematically dehumanized. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
  • And “retard” is a pejorative term used to dehumanize the mentally retarded. Matthew Yglesias » Does Anybody Know How to Do Development?
  • In both cases the result of improvement is a dehumanized landscape and something like a moral vacuum.
  • By the way, in case you never thought about it, “Reds” is an invidious term calculated to dehumanize radical activists. Dry up the tears for that golden period in US Journalism that never was
  • Dissent is dehumanized, as it is branded with this pejorative title and other insulting labels like xenophobe, nativist, peacenik or anti-American dupe.
  • Torture always dehumanizes both the torturer and his victim.
  • Once dehumanized, a certain Colonial attitude of infantilization is imposed upon them. Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction
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