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dehumanize

[dee-hyoo-muh-nahyz, -yoo-] / diˈhju məˌnaɪz, -ˈju- /
VERB
to deprive of dignity; treat as less than human
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barbarize brutalize imbrute
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VERB
remove the need for human skills
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The projects seek to home in on shared values and avoid works that dehumanize other people, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026

“We need to support artists, not dehumanize them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

Social media has a way of exacerbating preexisting social tensions and divisions, making it easier to dehumanize the other side and engage in a kind of verbal warfare.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025

How far are we willing to go to utterly dehumanize ourselves?

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024

Treating differences as a threat enables one society to dehumanize the other.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The word “denigrates Native American women and dehumanizes them,” Ramos said in a statement announcing the name changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

A bit more style earlier in the film might have helped stave off the deliberately bland feel that dehumanizes the characters.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022

“The use of the word ‘inmate’ further dehumanizes and demoralizes them,” he said in Ms. Hochul’s press release.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

“It really dehumanizes the events, the consequences of shootings, and makes it all into a joke,” said Whitney Phillips, a longtime disinformation researcher.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

As far as it can do so, it dehumanizes man, and treats him as a thing without a soul.

From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by A.C. Baldwin

The press corps has a job to do, but observers say its presence and callous pursuit of images that will sell can make immigrants feel dehumanized.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025

In Season 2, Thorfinn is sold off into slavery where he is dehumanized further, uttering the gut-wrenching line, “Not a single good thing has happened to me in my entire life.”

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

“Migrants are dehumanized and considered as nothing more than potential labor, entitled only to precarious regularization offers,” the French association said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

Instead of the usual dehumanized foil, Huerta’s portrayal elevates a brown body as dazzling and divine.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

“People as far on the fringes as you can get, completely dehumanized by ‘normal’ society.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Like the billionaire geniuses who created social media that wound up depressing, dumbing down and dehumanizing civilization, the motives of these companies were purely financial.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

They added that they "oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people" and "pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence".

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025

“The entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade,” the author writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025

The remark prompted agreement from his co-hosts on air but quickly went viral online, with critics calling it dehumanizing and dangerous.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

Nothing is more dehumanizing than the absence of human companionship.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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