inhumanize

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verb

To make inhuman.

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Meanings

verbinhumanize (third-person singular simple present inhumanizes, present participle inhumanizing, simple past and past participle inhumanized)

present singular third person inhumanizes · participle present inhumanizing · participle past inhumanized · past inhumanized

  1. transitiveTo make inhuman.
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    If medical coverage of perhaps the poorest 10% of Americans could be delivered at low cost […] it would be much better and cost effective ^([sic]) than the ongoing development of an implicitly biased health care and social structure determined to destroy individualism and inhumanize the poor in order that the advantaged might receive better reports from their manager; Satan.

    2012, Gary Clifford Gibson, Kinetic Military Action and Next Generation Debt, page 368

Origin

From inhuman + -ize.

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APA

inhumanize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhumanize

MLA

“inhumanize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhumanize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inhumanize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inhumanize.

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