deperson

English

Etymology

de- + person

Verb

deperson (third-person singular simple present depersons, present participle depersoning, simple past and past participle depersoned)

  1. (transitive) To take away essential attributes of a person; to make a human being less of a person.
    • 2018, David Porush, The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction
      [] the depopulator, the thing or system that depopulates or depersons, accords with my own dream scene: foliage dissolving, solid state cartridges sliding, persons silently far away blown up into volumes of illuminated centimeters, my own family choking on space.

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