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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.
  • Access to the cash that power brings, completely deranged and satisfying “investigations” that both dehumanize the opposition and give that warm fuzzy feeling of standing up for “principle” (no one is above the law — even, or especially those who have done nothing in its violation) and, best of all, they get to go on demolishing any hope of using government power to solve any actual problem out there. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Search and destroy
  • He applied business methods to the handling of human beings who, once they had been dehumanised, could be treated no differently from cargoes of kerosene.
  • Having been dehumanized in turn, they will embrace inhumanity and brutality.
  • This religiously inspired ideology is deeply anti - Semitic, dehumanizes Jews, and demands Israel's destruction.
  • This nostalgic embrace of primitiveness leads dystopians to interpret every technological advance as another step toward an ultimately dehumanized existence.
  • It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.
  • A girlfriend of one of the men took issue with the label "migrant workers," saying it dehumanized them. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • After a "ghastly, dehumanised moron" * killed off the much loved Routemaster London bus and replaced it with the more fare-dodger friendly bendy-bus, it was a relief when Boris Johnson was elected London Mayor on a platform (pun intended) of introducing a new style Routemaster. Archive 2008-10-01
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