desumanizar
Portuguese, verb/de.zu.ma.niˈza(ʁ)/
desumanizar is spelled D-E-S-U-M-A-N-I-Z-A-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 123,299th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desumanizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to dehumanize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fazer perder o caráter humano, a humanidade”.
What does desumanizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dehumanize
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fazer perder o caráter humano, a humanidade
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desumanizar
- desumanizo first-person present singular
- desumanizei first-person preterite singular
- desumanizado participle past
- desumanizares infinitive second-person singular
- desumanizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- desumanizardes infinitive plural second-person
- desumanizarem infinitive plural third-person
- desumanizando gerund
- desumanizados masculine participle past
- desumanizada feminine participle past
- desumanizadas feminine participle past
- desumanizas indicative present second-person
- desumaniza indicative present singular
- desumanizamos first-person indicative plural
- desumanizais indicative plural present
- desumanizam indicative plural present
- desumanizava first-person imperfect indicative
- desumanizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desumanizar?
- Brazil /de.zu.ma.niˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [de.zu.ma.niˈza(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.zu.ma.niˈza(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to desumanizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is desumanizar in Portuguese?
desumanizar appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).