Definition of "depersonalize" []

• To deprive of individual character or a sense of personal identity: a large corporation that depersonalizes its employees. (verb-transitive)
• To render impersonal: depersonalize an interview. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Most difficult, however, was packing up all of our framed photographs in an effort to "depersonalize" the space."
• "His bigger focus now is to depersonalize the whole house so buyers will concentrate on its potential rather than on its current owners and uses."
• "And this label of “socialism” as a means of justification reminds me of how armies depersonalize their enemy (savages, krauts, slant eyes, gooks, infidels, towel-heads, etc) in order justify killing them."