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DEPERSONALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depersonalize mean? 

DEPERSONALIZE (verb)
  The verb DEPERSONALIZE has 1 sense:

1. make impersonal or present as an objectplay

  Familiarity information: DEPERSONALIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DEPERSONALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they depersonalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it depersonalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: depersonalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: depersonalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: depersonalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make impersonal or present as an object

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

depersonalise; depersonalize; objectify

Context example:

Pornography objectifies women

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)


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