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

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1. • Degrade
   • Mechanize

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1. dehumanize, dehumaniseverb

   deprive of human qualities

   "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"

   Antonyms:
   humanize, humanise

   Synonyms:
   dehumanise

2. dehumanize, dehumaniseverb

   make mechanical or routine

   Antonyms:
   humanise, humanize

   Synonyms:
   dehumanise

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1. anthropomorphizeverb

   when analogizing human behavior to that of lesser creatures or inanimate objects. examples: sharks; termites; monkeys.

   the newcomers hollowed out the institution and left a façade as termites hollow out a log.

   Submitted by gmjaffe on September 13, 2022  

How to use dehumanize in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Justin Amash:

   No matter your circumstance, I'm asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us, if we continue to take America for granted, we will lose it.

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. 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.

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