dehumanize

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

   “Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.”

   “To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?”

   “And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.”

   “A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.”