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What does dehumanize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word dehumanize? Here's what it means.

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  1. To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
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It never objectifies the subject of the violence, nor does it dehumanize the perpetrators of violence.
One of the first aims of propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy in the public mind.
It calls for prohibition of all customary practices which dehumanize or cause injuries to the physical and mental wellbeing of a person.
And in that context, is it not problematic for that same leader to dehumanize the people of that country?
Psychological or emotional abuse involves using words or actions to control, isolate, intimidate or dehumanize someone.
Worse still than physical torture, the most degrading form of torture is when someone attempts to break, humiliate and dehumanize victims.

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