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

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1. dehumanize, dehumaniseverb

   deprive of human qualities

   "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"

   Synonyms:
   dehumanise

   Antonyms:
   humanize, humanise

2. dehumanize, dehumaniseverb

   make mechanical or routine

   Synonyms:
   dehumanise

   Antonyms:
   humanise, humanize

Matched Categories

1. • Degrade
   • Mechanize

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How to use dehumanize in a sentence?

1. Imam Gamal Fouda:

   Islamophobia is real. It is a targeted campaign to influence people to dehumanize and irrationally fear Muslims. To fear what we wear, to fear the choice of food we eat, to fear the way we pray and to fear the way we practice our faith.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Joe Connor:

   They just dehumanize our families for political gain, i guess they call it gaslighting. They can say these things that will make people believe that these riots were worse than the worst thing that happened on American soil. Either they're ignorant or they're just really devious and clever, and you can put nothing past them, because if you're willing to lie to that degree … It's a disturbing trend to me.

5. 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.