anonymize

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anonymize

  • /əˈnɒ.nɪ.maɪz/

verb anonymizes · anonymizing · anonymized · anonymise

  1. transitive To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data). This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]

    Similar: deidentify, depersonalize

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verb make or render anonymous

Españolanonimizar
Portuguêsanonimizar
Françaisanonymiser
Deutschanonymisieren
Italianoanonimizzare

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@misc{anonymize_2026,
  title = {anonymize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/anonymize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}