Deperson

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To take away essential attributes of a person; to make a human being less of a person. transitive

    "[…] 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."

Example

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"[…] 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."

Etymology

From de- + person.

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