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DEPERSONALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they depersonalize ... he / she / it depersonalizes
Past simple: depersonalized
Past participle: depersonalized
-ing form: depersonalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make impersonal or present as an object
Example:
Pornography objectifies women
Synonyms:
depersonalise; depersonalize; objectify
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "depersonalize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
personalize (make personal or more personal)
Derivation:
depersonalization (representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality)
depersonalization (emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness)
