1. To make something more humane or considerate of human needs and experience.
2. To give or reveal recognizably human qualities or character.
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Words that belong together
- humanize a procedure
- humanize an institution
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The revision humanized the procedure by allowing relevant personal circumstances to be heard.
The reform sought to humanize the institution without removing its shared rules.
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Word forms
- Base
- humanize
- Past tense
- humanized
- Past participle
- humanized
- Present participle
- humanizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- humanize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are humanizing
- Present perfect
- have/has humanized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been humanizing
- Past
- humanized
- Past continuous
- was/were humanizing
- Past perfect
- had humanized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been humanizing
- Future
- will humanize
- Future continuous
- will be humanizing
- Future perfect
- will have humanized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been humanizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: humanize; humanizes; humanized; humanized; humanizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: humanizes.
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