deperson en · VERB
Etymology
From de- + person.
Meanings
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(transitive) To take away essential attributes of a person; to make a human being less of a person.
[…] 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.
2018, David Porush, The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| depersoned | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| depersoned | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| depersoning | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| depersons | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |