What does "anonymize" mean?

To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).

What is a synonym for "anonymize"?

Common synonyms include: deidentify, depersonalize.

verb

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Verb

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To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data). transitive
"This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]"

"This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]"

From anonymous + -ize.

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