anonymize
English
Alternative forms
- anonymise (UK)
Etymology
Verb
anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)
- (transitive) To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).
- Synonyms: deidentify, depersonalize
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 11:
- This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]
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Translations
make or render anonymous
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