0 present participle of dehumanize
1 to remove from a person the special human qualities of independent thought, feeling for other people, etc.:
It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.
Efficiency requires routinization of care, which can be dehumanizing to patients and families.
We cannot forcefully clean a street of what is deemed unacceptable by a minority of the urban community for we are in fact dehumanizing it.
With their all-out attack on positivism and the "dehumanizing, counterrevolutionary" nature of its concepts, they threw out the baby with the bathwater.
These factory tourism articles describe the factory system as a social network of individuals, not a dehumanizing network of depthless, homogenous objects.
And yet, they were also very uncomfortable to read since the dehumanizing deprivations described in them confronted my complicity with the status quo.
It intimated the contingency of racial discrimination's dependence upon skin color as a justification for dehumanizing commodification.
The fear of contamination of the upper classes led to attacks on people's lives and belongings and the dehumanizing of the poor (pp. 180 + 3).
We are not cleaning the street, we are dehumanizing it.
