0 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.
Organicism can no longer be uncritically affirmed as the counter to dehumanizing mechanistic and materialistic trends.
What is wrong with these approaches is that they inherently dehumanize the agent.
It intimated the contingency of racial discrimination's dependence upon skin color as a justification for dehumanizing commodification.
He felt, as he often told me, that such a procedure dehumanizes design.
We are not cleaning the street, we are dehumanizing it.
On the contrary, victims receive quite distancing, authoritative, and many times even dehumanizing responses (if any) from female officers.
