deperson

English

Etymology

de- +‎ person

Verb

deperson (third-person singular simple present depersons, present participle depersoning, simple past and past participle depersoned)

1. (transitive) To take away essential attributes of a person; to make a human being less of a person.
   • 2018, David Porush, The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction‎^[1]:

     […] 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.

Anagrams

• Pederson, deponers, personed, rope's end, rope's-end