HUMANISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humanise mean? 

• HUMANISE (verb)
  The verb HUMANISE has 1 sense:

1. make more humane

  Familiarity information: HUMANISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMANISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they humanise    ... he / she / it humanises   
Past simple: humanised   
Past participle: humanised   
-ing form: humanising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more humane

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

humanise; humanize

Context example:

The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city

Hypernyms (to "humanise" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

humanisation (the act of making more human)

 Context examples 

How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing—like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life; how sweet it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay; how humanising to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)