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Depersonalize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To deprive of individual character or a sense of personal identity: a large corporation that depersonalizes its employees.

v. To render impersonal: depersonalize an interview.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something

v. To present something as an impersonal object

v. To suffer an episode of depersonalization

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To regard as not individually personal; remove the idea of personality or of individuality from, as by ascribing a work, like the Iliad or the Odyssey, to many writers or authors, instead of to one writer or author. Also spelled depersonalise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make impersonal or present as an object

Word Usage

"Most difficult, however, was packing up all of our framed photographs in an effort to "depersonalize" the space."

Verb Form

depersonalized depersonalizes depersonalizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

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Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

personalize