DEHUMANIZED Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

dehumanized

verb

past tense of dehumanize

as in humiliated

to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being being deprived of clothes dehumanized the prisoners

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Recent Examples of dehumanized The petition argues Mays’ language during the trial revealed something deeper than a poor defense strategy — a worldview that dehumanized the man he was supposed to defend. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 The costume and the posture of the model in the photo drew comparisons online to images of the racist theatrical character Jim Crow, a staple in blackface minstrel shows, which dehumanized Black people. — Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 Telling this story from a child’s perspective is a way of trying to revive empathy for people who are often dehumanized by the way they are portrayed. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026 Everyone feels like they’re dehumanized by the process in a way that leads them to suspect there’s something monstrous about the whole endeavor. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 July 2026 The Coalition for the Homeless says the city's unhoused are often dehumanized and criminalized. — Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026 In a world that often feels fragmented and dehumanized, reclaiming this universality is an ethical act. — Ed Meza, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026 Our past, our lives, dehumanized into numbers. — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 The guy’s ghosting of me also dehumanized him. — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025

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In their first national title game, the Wildcats humiliated Oklahoma in the national semifinal by 44, and in their second, demoralized Michigan in the title game by 17.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
After being publicly humiliated by Daemon Targaryen and lured to switch sides (with his dragon) to the Greens by Ormund Hightower, party animal Ulf is still drunk and MIA when the battle starts.

— Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

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How many people will stay home rather than risk being racially profiled and brutalized?

— Kica Matos, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Described as a biting political thriller in the tradition of Wild in the Streets and V for Vendetta, The Hunted is set in a dystopian America where trans people are brutalized and erased to the margins of society.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 20 June 2026

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Glutathione is processed in sterile compounding pharmacies, and there have been cases of people getting poisoned due to contamination at these facilities, Sack said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Patterson was accused of pretending to eat the same portion, and of feigning illness in an elaborate ruse to suggest she’d also been poisoned.

— Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

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