unhumanize

present singular third person unhumanizes · participle present unhumanizing · participle past unhumanized · past unhumanized

1. transitiveTo strip of humanity; to dehumanize.

   Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize one individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. He destroys the foundations.

   1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

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   If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.

   1908, John Ruskin, Selections From the Works of John Ruskin