dehumanise
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
deprive of human qualities
Life in poverty has dehumanized them
Types & categories
- demean hypernym
Related & opposite
- humanize antonym
- dehumanization derivation
Sense 2 verb
make mechanical or routine
Types & categories
- mechanize hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | humanize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dehumanization |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | demean |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | mechanize |