HUMANIZE

humanize, humanise

(verb) make more humane; “The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

humanize (third-person singular simple present humanizes, present participle humanizing, simple past and past participle humanized)

(transitive) To make human; to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.

(transitive) To make sympathetic or relatable.

(intransitive) To become humane or civilized.

(transitive, medicine) To convert into something human or belonging to humans.

Antonyms

• dehumanize

Etymology 2

Verb

humanize (third-person singular simple present humanizes, present participle humanizing, simple past and past participle humanized)

To make humane.

Source: Wiktionary

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Hu"man*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. humaniser.]

1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion Addison.

2. To give a human character or expression to. "Humanized divinities." Caird.

3. (Med.)

Definition: To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

Hu"man*ize, v. i.

Definition: To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery. Franklin.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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