dehumanizing

diːˈhjuːmənaɪzɪŋ
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Translation of dehumanizing from English into Dutch,

Adjective

1.

impersonal treatment

reducing individuals to objects or numbers
  • The dehumanizing process ignored personal stories.Het ontmenselijkende proces negeerde persoonlijke verhalen.
2.

loss of dignity

stripping away human qualities and dignity
  • The dehumanizing system treated everyone as identical.Het ontmenselijkende systeem behandelde iedereen als identiek.

Noun

social issues

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action of treating people as less than human
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  • The propaganda campaign relied on dehumanizing its opponents.De propagandacampagne berustte op het ontmenselijken van haar tegenstanders.
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Synonyms and analogies of dehumanizing in English

Examples of dehumanizing in a sentence

  • Dehumanizing policies stripped away individual identities.
  • The dehumanizing comments left a lasting impact on her.
  • Working in such dehumanizing conditions was unbearable.
  • The report condemned the dehumanizing of refugees at the border.
  • She spoke out against the dehumanizing in the company’s hiring practices.
dehumanize
diːˈhjuːməˌnaɪz
Verb
tr.

dignity

remove human qualities or make someone feel like an object
ontmenselijken dehumaniseren
  • The guards tried to dehumanize the prisoners.De bewakers probeerden de gevangenen te ontmenselijken.

Translations of "dehumanizing" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Adjective / Participle
mensonterendadj.

Which I get... it's totally dehumanizing.

Waarvan ik vind dat het totaal mensonterend is.

It's a gross, dehumanizing stereotype.

Het is een grof, mensonterend stereotype.

ontmenselijktpp.

Now, I'll tell you what is dehumanizing.

Ik zal je zeggen wat ontmenselijkt is.

So he is dehumanizing them, but he's just not killing them.

Dus hij ontmenselijkt ze, maar hij doodt ze niet alleen.

ontmenselijkende

Many protested against the dehumanizing treatment patients received in that hospital.

Velen protesteerden tegen de ontmenselijkende behandeling van patiënten in dat ziekenhuis.

The novel highlights the dehumanizing effects of war on soldiers.

De roman laat de ontmenselijkende invloed van oorlog op soldaten zien.

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Other translations for dehumanizing:

  • onpersoonlijkadj.
  • onmenselijke

dehumanizing: Examples and translations in context

It's such a disgusting, dehumanizing way to socialize.

Het is zo'n walgelijke, mensonterende manier om te socialiseren.

That's a life of abject poverty and dehumanizing infidelity.

Dat is een leven vol bittere armoede en mensonterende ontrouw.

Which I get... it's totally dehumanizing.

Waarvan ik vind... dat het totaal mensonterend is.

It was painful, dehumanizing torture.

Het was een pijnlijke, mensonterende marteling.

Today we can only look back with disgust when we think of this horrible trade in human flesh and all the crimes and dehumanizing procedures that were part of this.

We kunnen nu alleen nog maar met afschuw terugdenken aan deze vreselijke mensenhandel en alle daaraan verbonden misstanden en mensonterende toestanden.

He also projects the dehumanizing horror of the rising 'bio-industry' of his time on humanity's hypothetical 'cattle status' under alien dominion.

Ook projecteert hij de mensonterende horreur van de in zijn tijd opkomende bio-industrie op een hypothetische 'slachtvee status' van de mensheid na een buitenaardse invasie.

His insight into the dehumanizing effect of bureaucracy and the sense of personal oppression and alienation caused by contemporary life speaks to us still with moving intensity.

Zijn inzicht in het mensonterend effect van de bureaucratie en de sfeer van persoonlijke onderdrukking en vervreemding die veroorzaakt worden door onze huidige manier van leven, spreekt ons nog altijd levendig aan.

Or the poverty that grinds the dignity out of human beings, that's dehumanizing.

Of armoede die mensen hun waardigheid afneemt, dat is ontmenselijkt.

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