dehumanize

1. (transitive) To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.Examples: "In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man."; "Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation."; "To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?"transitive