0 to make something less unpleasant and more suitable for people:
1 to make someone or something kinder, gentler, or more agreeable:
They were able to humanize the impersonal Internet.
The liberal arts humanize people. That's why you teach them.
The loss humanized her, making her seem less robotic and showing she could be graceful in defeat.
If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication, we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind.
Their narratives on building gender and class identity both materialize and humanize the analysis of research data.
In nonviolent fashion, this will both defeat the repetitions of the machine and humanize the worker.
The elephant continued to be humanized, at least in part because of the culture of putting beasts in cages.
