0 present participle of humanize
1 to make something less unpleasant and more suitable for people:
Steps are being taken to humanize the prison.
The importance people attributed to the humanizing and comforting approach of people involved in their treatment either directly or indirectly emerged from the text.
It is at least possible that the spread of globalization and of market interactions may eventually lead to greater humanizing tendencies.
In the same way, the (humanizing) immigrant metaphor organizes our view of the sparrow.
The effectiveness of metaphors both naturalizing and humanizing relies on the existence of common assumptions about the object of comparison.
Arguably, the sheer number of towns, their independence and their small size all played a part in humanizing industrialization.
Talking about other people, she claims, is "humanizing" in that it is part of our experience of building relationships, sharing with others, and ultimately becoming and being human.
He was practised at humanizing the particular kind of transition denoted by decolonization, though to what exact purpose, other than the general cultivation of ' goodwill ', was not entirely clear.
We supported the report because it calls for the humanizing of the reception of refugees.
