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to rehumanize

to rehumanize

1 7.8
To treat people or communities with respect and kindness after they were treated badly
  • verb
  • /riːˈhjuːmənaɪz/
: rehumanizar
  • And in order for us to prevent and to save lives, we have to rehumanize the people whose death has been normalized.

And in order for us to prevent and to save lives, we have to rehumanize the people whose death has been normalized.

Examples

  • Hers is a specifically rehumanizing monumentality, accomplished in part by the aspect of first-person narration.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize work.

    Blog text (13)

  • Disrupt, restore, rehumanize.

    Blog text (9)

  • Rehumanizing work requires courage.

    Blog text (13)

  • To help the victims heal, the community worked together to rehumanize their experiences and restore their dignity.

  • The documentary aimed to rehumanize homeless individuals by sharing their personal stories and struggles.

  • In therapy, we learn to rehumanize ourselves after the trauma of being treated as less than human.

Synonyms

to humanize
vsto rehumanize
27 4.8

To make something kinder and more caring toward people

restores human dignity specifically after it has been dehumanized

Antonyms

to dehumanize
  • Formal
24 7.5

To treat a person as if they are not human and take away their dignity

How Humane

to rehumanize
1 7.8
to humanize
27 4.8
to dignify
20 5.1
to mistreat
59 2.9
to dehumanize
  • Formal
24 7.5

Surface Forms

rehumanize infinitive
rehumanized past
rehumanized past participle
rehumanizing present participle
rehumanizes third person singular

Morphology

rehumanize = humanize (transparent) = re + human + ize

The prefix 're-' clearly adds the meaning of restoring or doing again to the recognizable base verb 'humanize'.

Etymology

The word rehumanize has two parts: re- 'again' and human 'person', so it literally means to 'make a person again'. To rehumanize someone is to give back their dignity, care, and human qualities after they have been treated like less than a person.