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Meaning of 'humanize' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Humanize [ v. i.]
- To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
2 . Humanize [ v. t.]
- To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
- To give a human character or expression to.
- To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

Meaning of 'humanize' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . humanize [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make more humane
Example in sentence:
  • The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city

Nearby Words:

hum human humanate humane humanics humanify humanism humanist humanistic humanitarian

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