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v. To portray or endow with human characteristics or attributes; make human: humanized the puppets with great skill.

v. To imbue with humaneness or human kindness; civilize: acts of courtesy that humanize life in a big city.

v. To make human, to give or cause to have the fundamental properties of a human.

v. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.

v. To give a human character or expression to.

v. To convert into something human or belonging to man.

verb-intransitive. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.

To make human; give or attribute a human character to; render conformable to human nature or requirements.

To render humane or gentle; make susceptible or agreeable to human feeling; refine or soften the human character of; civilize.

To become human or humane; become civilized.

Also spelled humanise.

v. make more humane

"Unlike some commentators who concluded that through the recounting of these events with their frequent expressions of dismay with the program and its methods, Littell was attempting to "humanize" Dr. Aue, I found the portrait of SS officers manifesting a degree of struggle with the task they'd been assigned a compelling alternative to the usual image of Nazis as unambiguously malevolent."

humanized    humanizes    humanizing   

change    modify    alter   

humanized lymph    humanized virus   

humanise   

humanized    humanizing   

soften   

aluminize