The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humanize \Hu"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing.] [Cf. F. humaniser.]
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To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. [Also spelled humanise.]
Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?
--Addison. To give a human character or expression to. ``Humanized divinities.''
--Caird.(Med.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of humanize English)
Usage examples of "humanizing".
By focusing public attention for once on long-range goals rather than immediate programs alone, by asking people to choose a preferable future from among a range of alternative futures, these assemblies could dramatize the possibilities for humanizing the future--possibilities that all too many have already given up as lost.
She adds a stabilizing and humanizing element to Wolf's life, which allows him to exert more and more control over the Old One.
Angered by the narrow, econocentric character of technocratic planning, they condemn systems analysis, cost benefit accounting, and similar methods, ignoring the fact that, used differently, these very tools might be converted into powerful techniques for humanizing the future.
He wanted Mr Gray to experience the entire gamut of human emotions, suspecting that humanizing his usurper might ultimately be his only chance of survival - we have met the enemy and he is us, Pogo had once said.
A lot of Kennedy's quips were just as much humanizing as they were bright, you know.