1. tending to deprive someone of human qualities, dignity, or individuality
Usage: often used to describe systems, conditions, or treatment that strip away humanity

1. present participle of dehumanise; to treat someone in a way that denies their human worth or individuality
Usage: British spelling; American spelling is 'dehumanizing'

Examples

• The factory's assembly line work was dehumanising, reducing workers to mere cogs in a machine.
• Critics argue that the prison system is dehumanising inmates through overcrowding and isolation.
• Propaganda can be dehumanising by portraying entire groups as less than human.
• She found the standardized testing process dehumanising because it ignored individual strengths.
• The documentary exposed dehumanising conditions in the labour camps.
• Modern surveillance technology risks dehumanising society by treating people as data points.