| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb humanize.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (humanize) | 1. Make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city".[Wordnet]. 2. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.[Websters]. 3. To give a human character or expression to.[Websters]. 4. To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.[Websters]. 5. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: humanizing, humanized, humanizes, humanizer, humanizers, humanizingly and humanizedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "HUMANIZING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1798. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HUMANIZING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Softening; subduing cruel dispositions.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humanize. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Topics by Level of Interest: humanize | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Humanize Human | 5 | Humanize Human | 5 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
