dehumanizing
present participle ofdehumanize
dehumanize
verb[T]
(UKusuallydehumanise)uk/ˌdiːˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/us/ˌdiːˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/toremovefrom apersonthespecialhumanqualitiesofindependentthought,feelingfor otherpeople, etc.:
It's atotalitarianregimethatreducesand dehumanizesitspopulation.
Opposite
humanize
Treating people or animals badly
- abuser
- anti-harassment
- at the hands ofsomeoneidiom
- batten
- batten onsomeone
- ill-treat
- ill-treatment
- ill-used
- impose
- inflict
- pick onsomeone
- prey
- prey onsomething
- putsomeonethroughsomething
- put upon
- tyrannical
- tyrannize
- tyranny
- uncared for
- use
Examplesofdehumanizing
dehumanizing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Efficiency requires routinization of care, which can bedehumanizingto patients and families.
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We cannot forcefully clean a street of what is deemed unacceptable by a minority of the urban community for we are in factdehumanizingit.
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With their all-out attack on positivism and the "dehumanizing, counterrevolutionary" nature of its concepts, they threw out the baby with the bathwater.
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These factory tourism articles describe the factory system as a social network of individuals, not adehumanizingnetwork of depthless, homogenous objects.
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And yet, they were also very uncomfortable to read since thedehumanizingdeprivations described in them confronted my complicity with the status quo.
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It intimated the contingency of racial discrimination's dependence upon skin color as a justification fordehumanizingcommodification.
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The fear of contamination of the upper classes led to attacks on people's lives and belongings and thedehumanizingof the poor (pp. 180 + 3).
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We are not cleaning the street, we aredehumanizingit.
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On the contrary, victims receive quite distancing, authoritative, and many times evendehumanizingresponses (if any) from female officers.
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Further, the psychosocial aspects of high technology care must be considered in order to design treatment protocols that minimize thedehumanizingaspects of technological dependency.
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Because of their lack of power in relation to men, women have a heightened vulnerability to thedehumanizing, objectifying prerogatives of consumer capitalism.
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It's very challenging and potentially difficult because in advancing these kinds of arguments you can appear as adehumanizingperson, when in fact you're not at all.
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Informal group level interaction, including undesirable labeling, marginalizing, ordehumanizingbehavior can be redirected.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He makes scenic paintings about cultural collision, environmental degradation,dehumanizingslums, and violence through attrition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The name itself, an abbreviation of raccoon, isdehumanizing.
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- non-police
- non-police
- non-political
- non-political
- non-politically
- non-politically
- non-politician
- non-politician
- non-polluting
- non-polluting
- non-poor
- non-poor
- nonporous
- non-possession
- non-possession
- non-practical
- non-practical
- nonpracticing
- non-practising
- emergency planning
- emergency preparedness
- emergency procedure
- emergency provision
- emergency provision
- emergency ration