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Meanings of dehumanise in English

Portuguese
desumanizar
Catalan
deshumanitzar
Spanish
deshumanizar

Deprive of human qualities.

desumanizar
Usage of dehumanise in English
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She said: I never ever want our party to dehumanise our opponents.
The Guardian
2
It is easy to dehumanise others; indeed we all do it to some degree.
The Irish Times
3
Their stories were always told through parties that had a motive to dehumanise them.
News.com.au
4
He suggests that there is a deliberate attempt to dehumanise.
The Irish Times
5
He alleged that some political figures were trying to "dehumanise" opponents.
BBC
6
But we often dehumanise people caught up in scandal.
News.com.au
7
The drive to dehumanise the unborn child is relentless.
The Irish Times
8
Today, indigenous peoples live with the consequences of the doctrines used to dehumanise and dispossess them.
The Guardian
9
I was not intending to dehumanise, he said.
The Guardian
10
We have a tendency to dehumanise people in these situations, see ourselves as different to the refugees.
The Guardian
11
The latter offered us a way out: the means to transform, perfect and dehumanise ourselves; to cheat death.
The Guardian
12
Rejecting an early suitor who seeks to dehumanise her, Mira nonetheless enters into a conventional 1950's suburban marriage.
The Irish Times
13
Research shows that drivers more readily dehumanise other drivers and pedestrians in ways they wouldn't when interacting in person.
The Guardian
14
Systematic rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, used to dehumanise the victims and intimidate and terrorise their communities.
The Irish Times
15
Whatever the outcome of the US strike, those behind it are spot on -when we dehumanise prisoners, it demeans us all.
The Guardian
16
Research reviewed in the latest New Scientist demonstrates that the ability to dehumanise members of a group other than our own is innate.
The Irish Times
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Translations for dehumanise
Portuguese
desumanizar
Dehumanise through the time