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Synonyms for dehumanizing


Grammar : Verb
Spell : dee-hyoo-muh-nahyz or, often, -yoo-
Phonetic Transcription : diˈhyu məˌnaɪz or, often, -ˈyu-



Définition of dehumanizing

Origin :
  • 1818, from de- + humanize. Related: Dehumanized; dehumanizing.
  • verb mechanize
Example sentences :
  • Away with all such degrading, debasing, dehumanizing trumpery!
  • Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
  • But I warn you to beware of the dehumanizing influence of caste.
  • Extract from : « The Hindered Hand » by Sutton E. Griggs
  • This process of dehumanizing has been going on in commerce and politics.
  • Extract from : « Nationalism » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • There is also the dehumanizing of the relations between master and man.
  • Extract from : « The Unity of Civilization » by Various
  • Such are extreme poverty and the dehumanizing of social relations.
  • Extract from : « The Unity of Civilization » by Various
  • And this is like in kind to the dehumanizing of all functions in the vast institutions of modern times.
  • Extract from : « The Unity of Civilization » by Various
  • Herein is shown a process that is dehumanizing, not only to the prisoners, but to every one connected with it.
  • Extract from : « Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life » by Oscar Wilde
  • To those songs I trace my first glimmering conceptions of the dehumanizing character of slavery.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • Daily I behold the machinery at work, grinding and pulverizing, brutalizing the officers, dehumanizing the inmates.
  • Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
  • In this dehumanizing business Field was only doing what the entire commercial aristocracy the world over was doing.
  • Extract from : « History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I » by Myers Gustavus

Antonyms for dehumanizing

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