What is "depersonalize"

Usage examples of "depersonalize".

She felt depersonalized, as if by treating her like a machine they had made her into one.

Medic, the machines which looked inside and through her, the feeling of being completely depersonalized, her body a machine among other machines, violated.

Maggie, the girl of the streets, who went to the depersonalized, depersonalizing city, and was lost for all time, unable to learn rapidly enough to survive except in a corrupted fashion.

I was being systematically depersonalized by the whole educational apparatus at the University of California at Santa Barbara and all I heard from my parents day after day in letters, phone calls and telegrams was that I should transfer to the University of California at Santa Cruz, which they wanted me to do for their own selfish grabby reasons, probably tinged with incest.

The banks of robot clerks that took the orders by phone had more-or-less depersonalized food purchasing.

You might say I collected-even exulted in-every nihilistic book, thought, and person, and this is not difficult for we live in a very depersonalizing and negative age.

Who wants to be depersonalized into a statistic or into mere membership in a group?

You might say I collected-even exulted in-every nihilistic book, thought, and person, and this is not difficult for we live in a very depersonalizing and negative age.

Then he depersonalizes them further: they are no longer individuals but "a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth" on the floor of the boxcar.

It depersonalized them, made it easier for the Dollmaker stories that were broadcast to be entertaining instead of horrifying.

One Phoenix operative, testifying before Congress, stated that Phoenix was "a sterile, depersonalized murder program… it was completely indiscriminate.