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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hu·man·ize /ˈhjuməˌnaɪz, ˈju-/
 (vt.)賦予人性,教化,使通人情(vi.)變為有人性,變為有情,有教化

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 hu·man·ize /ˈhjuməˌnaɪz, ˈju-/ 及物動詞
 人源化

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hu·man·ize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humanized p. pr. & vb. n. Humanizing ]
 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. [Also spelled humanise.]
    Was it the business of magic to humanize our natures with compassion?   --Addison.
 2. To give a human character or expression to. Humanized divinities.”
 3. Med. To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hu·man·ize, v. i. To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
    By the original law of nations, war and extirpation were the punishment of injury. Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death; a further step was the exchange of prisoners instead of slavery.   --Franklin.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 humanize
      v : make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the
          big city" [syn: humanise] [ant: dehumanize]