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dehumanize

verb as in to deprive of dignity; treat as less than human

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verb as in remove the need for human skills

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There are a number of words people use to verbally attack, dehumanize, and other transgender women like me.

Epps is, in many ways, a false prophet who uses religion as a means to dehumanize what he calls his “property.”

Totalitarians dehumanize their enemies; democrats empathize.

The way they justify their abuse is that they dehumanize them.

Such despicable nonsense is spouted for one reason: to dehumanize Palestinians.

But Mr. Kingsley refuses to dehumanize himself in order to become historian and philosopher.

I combat it as having a tendency to dehumanize the negro, to take away from him the right of ever striving to be a man.

Does God's law dehumanize the slave, and reduce him to a mere chattel?

We dehumanize the universe, but we do not render it the less grand and mysterious.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dehumanize, such as: automate, brutalize, automatize, barbarize, imbrute, and robotize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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