Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense dehumanizes, present participle dehumanizing, past tense, past participle dehumanizedregional note: in BRIT, also use dehumanise
verb
If you say that something dehumanizes people, you mean it takes away from them good human qualities such as kindness, generosity, and independence.
The years of civil war have dehumanized all of us. [VERB noun]
dehumanizinggraded adjective
...the brutal, dehumanising experience of slavery.