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humanize
  1. (transitive) To make human; to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.
  2. (transitive) To make sympathetic or relatable.
  3. (intransitive) To become humane or civilized.
  4. (medicine) To convert into something human or belonging to humans.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Indeed, such unofficial communication between hostile nations tends to humanize the enemy and improve the prospects for peace and cooperation.”
      “The charity organization's mission is to humanize the treatment of animals and advocate for their well-being.”
      “And for a wider audience, a list of names is an effective way to humanize a tragedy of this scope.”
humanise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of humanize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Brands are being used to humanise corporations by appropriating cuddly characteristics such as courage, honesty, friendliness and fun.”
      “Public art could be part of an attempt to humanise our towns and cities, adding character to chain shops and traffic islands.”
      “Furthermore, that could climb as marketers find increasingly more ways to humanise our pets.”
humanify
  1. To give humanity to; to make relatable.
human
  1. (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
humanitarianize
  1. (transitive) To make humanitarian.
humanize
  1. To make humane.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Indeed, such unofficial communication between hostile nations tends to humanize the enemy and improve the prospects for peace and cooperation.”
      “The charity organization's mission is to humanize the treatment of animals and advocate for their well-being.”
      “And for a wider audience, a list of names is an effective way to humanize a tragedy of this scope.”
humanitarianizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanitarianize
humanitarianized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humanitarianize
humanizes
humanises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Even in childhood and young womanhood, there is little of the contingent and insignificant detail which humanises the great.”
      “Once, however, Maria has entered the von Trapp household, she actively humanises, harmonises, and feminises these new environs.”
      “The 2009 edition humanises Hinenuitepo by correcting her putative godhood.”
humanifies
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanify
humanitarianizing
  1. present participle of humanitarianize
humanised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humanise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Workers will be humanised by future technology, not made redundant, upskilled instead of being made obsolete.”
      “Where other anthropologists exoticised or patronised, Firth humanised the people about whom he wrote.”
      “These presenters will act as personal assistants, and also as humanised search engines, digging out information from the web and the airwaves on the user's request.”
humanized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humanize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Those houses were built of the materials furnished by the environment and embedded in hilly landscapes humanized by countless terraces.”
      “That's how an acute farceur humanized a sewer rat for audiences of the 50s and every TV generation since.”
      “The other characters are, oddly enough, humanized enough to make the show watchable.”
humanified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of humanify
humanising
  1. present participle of humanise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Postmodernism has given rise to a very strong and novel historiography that is more integrative and humanising and built on representations.”
      “Promoting rehabilitation rather than retribution would be a real step towards humanising the criminal justice system220 and tackling recidivism.”
      “Twenty-five years later, CSR is aimed quite simply at humanising and regulating globalisation.”
humanizing
  1. present participle of humanize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But modern humanity did not understand the civilizing and humanizing mission of higher learning.”
      “This film garnered nominations and awards for its humanizing portrait of what some might consider an inhuman criminal.”
      “By humanizing his characters, he brings us to an empathetic understanding of what might have brought them to where they are now.”
humanifying
  1. present participle of humanify
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