Deperson
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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
More examples"[…] 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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