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dehumanise

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Meaning

make mechanical or routine

deprive of human qualities

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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them. Hannah Arendt

Life in poverty has dehumanized them Source: Internet

De Klerk presided over a regime that murdered men, women and children to preserve the most evil political system designed to dehumanise people of colour and destroy the human spirit. Source: Internet

This narrative certainly had its time, but we have come to dread it, because through it we dehumanise ourselves and demean the journeys that have made us who we are. Source: Internet

You or impostor, Zambians will not forget that you have harassed, beaten, maimed, humiliated, kidnapped, fired guns and shot Zambians and dehumanise Zambians. Source: Internet

The Iranian Regime is content to dehumanise women (and men) until they turn to drugs, and then punish them for that as well. Source: Internet

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