dehumanize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   deprive of human qualities

   Life in poverty has dehumanized them

2. 2
   verb

   To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.

   In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.

3. 3
   verb

   make mechanical or routine

Etymology

From de- + humanize.