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Synonyms for humanize
ˈhyu məˌnaɪz; often ˈyu-hu·man·ize
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
humanize
Synonyms:
civilize, ameliorate, enlighten, christianise, refine
Princeton's WordNet
humanize, humaniseverb
make more humane
"The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city"
Synonyms:
humaniseAntonyms:
dehumanize, dehumanise
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Editors Contribution
personification
to humanize is to make something friendlier to humans.
they promised to humanize conditions at the company.
Submitted by rinat on December 2, 2015
Dictionary of English Synonymes
humanizeverb
Synonyms:
soften, make humanehumanizeverb
Synonyms:
civilize, cultivate, refine, polish, improve, enlighten, educate, reclaim from barbarism
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List of paraphrases for "humanize":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#5397 | refine | |
#33465 | enlighten | |
#60127 | ameliorate | |
#129350 | humanize | |
#179254 | civilize |
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I think the real value in that may be to start to try to generate even a little bit of empathy around this and humanize the kid a little bit, hopefully enough to save a life.
I don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.
They will continue to downplay his role and play up the role of his older brother, trying to create the impression that his older brother was the puppeteer and he was the puppet, i don't think they have any hope of prevailing in the guilt phase, but their strategy will continue to be to gain some credibility with the jury by conceding what they had to concede and hoping to try to humanize the kid a little bit so that will carry over into the second phase of the trial.
The goal for her is to humanize Tsarnaev, of course, that's a difficult challenge for her when the defendant has by the defense team's own admission committed such a horrific act. Yet, it's certainly not impossible.
The optics of being on the ground and recognizing what has happened is more important than anything Barack Obama has to say, i would like for once to see Barack Obama go off script and have a human, angry reaction to this, because it would humanize Barack Obama and it would humanize this situation that the country seems almost desensitized to.
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