'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]
Words containing 'Humanize'
- Human,
- Humanate,
- Humane,
- Humanely,
- Humaneness,
- Humanics,
- Humanism,
- Humanities,
- Humanity,
- Humanization,
- Humanized,
- Humanizer,
- Humanizing,
- Humanly,
- Humanness,
- human being,
- humans,
- Human fish,
- Religion of humanity,
- doctor of humanities,
- human action,
- human activity,
- human beings,
- human body,
- human botfly,
- human death,
- human dynamo,
- human ecology,
- human elbow,
- human face,
- human factor,
- human foot,
- human head,
- human interest,
- human knee,
- human nature,
- human palaeontology,
- human paleontology,
- human process,
- human race,
- human relationship,
- human right,
- human waste,
- secular humanism,
- commission on human rights,
- doctor of humane letters,
- health and human services,
- human chorionic gonadotrophin,
- human chorionic gonadotropin,
- human gamma globulin,
- human genome project,
- human growth hormone,
- human immunodeficiency virus,
- human language technology,
- human papilloma virus,
- human remains pouch,
- human reproductive cloning,
- human vs nonhuman,
- human-centered,
- human-centred,
- human-sized,
- recombinant human insulin,
- segway human transporter,
- department of health and human services,
- secretary of health and human services,
- human t-cell leukemia virus-1