Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inhumanize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-hu-man-ize
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make inhuman.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"If medical coverage of perhaps the poorest 10% of Americans could be delivered at low cost […] it would be much better and cost effective ^([sic]) than the ongoing development of an implicitly biased health care and social structure determined to destroy individualism and inhumanize the poor in order that the advantaged might receive better reports from their manager; Satan."

Etymology

From inhuman + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: inhuman

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

inhumanizes (present, singular) inhumanizing (participle, present) inhumanized (participle, past) inhumanized (past)

Questions

What does inhumanize mean?: To make inhuman.
Where does inhumanize come from?: From inhuman + -ize.

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