'Humanize' definitions:

Definition of 'humanize'

(from WordNet)
verb
Make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city" [syn: humanize, humanise] [ant: dehumanise, dehumanize]

Definition of 'Humanize'

From: GCIDE
  • Humanize \Hu"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing.] [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. [Also spelled humanise.] [1913 Webster]
  • Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion? --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To give a human character or expression to. "Humanized divinities." --Caird. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Humanize'

From: GCIDE
  • Humanize \Hu"man*ize\, v. i. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]