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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of humanise.

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Examples

  • So it kind of humanised the Aussie guys a bit, and makes you realise that if a chance comes then you're not too far away.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • But I fear that if the AFSPA is 'humanised' it would become acceptable.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • So it kind of humanised the Aussie guys a bit, and makes you realise that if a chance comes then you're not too far away.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • In addition, with the character of the tragic prostitute, Nancy, Dickens "humanised" such women for the reading public; women who were regarded as "unfortunates," inherently immoral casualties of the Victorian class/economic system. "[wiki]

    Archive 2008-09-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • In addition, with the character of the tragic prostitute, Nancy, Dickens "humanised" such women for the reading public; women who were regarded as "unfortunates," inherently immoral casualties of the Victorian class/economic system. "[wiki]

    Evil, Incarnate Heather McDougal 2008

  • I call bringing children into the world a codfish act which causes an overflux of vulgar little earthlings, if the process be not humanised and spiritualised.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • It is an intimate community humanised by the format of video which, while it demands more from its contributors, gives back more in the quality of interaction.

    As 12seconds.tv closes, what is the future for video communities? Jemima Kiss 2010

  • Hirschbiegel attracted plenty of criticism – and also awards – for Downfall, in which it was said that Bruno Ganz, an established giant of European acting, humanised Hitler to a degree with which many viewers were uncomfortable.

    Trailer trash 2012

  • Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanised.

    Advertising and Moral Illiteracy and the Apple/iphone Launch! « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • The two Dalek factions fought one another apparently to the point of mutual annihilation, but the humanised Daleks were eventually overcome and destroyed.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

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