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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

deperson en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + person.

Meanings

  1. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
depersoned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
depersoned Tense=Past lexicographic
depersoning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
depersons Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic