as in to humiliate
to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being
being deprived of clothes dehumanized the prisoners
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Policies may prohibit content that dehumanizes, demeans, spreads hateful language, or perpetuates negative stereotypes, but Via says that these rules are vague enough to allow problematic content to remain up.
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Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
The word was used as a colonial term to dehumanize and demean Native women in the United States and Canada.
—Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
But immigration caps, dehumanizing rhetoric, and a draconian immigration system remain in place to this day.
—Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
His instinct is to demean and dehumanize others in the coarsest possible terms.
—Mike Kabatt, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
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Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
The word was used as a colonial term to dehumanize and demean Native women in the United States and Canada.
—Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 18 July 2024
But immigration caps, dehumanizing rhetoric, and a draconian immigration system remain in place to this day.
—Devin E. Naar / Made By History, TIME, 9 July 2024
His instinct is to demean and dehumanize others in the coarsest possible terms.
—Mike Kabatt, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
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“Dehumanize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dehumanize. Accessed 11 Sep. 2024.
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