anonymize

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Etymology

From anonymous + -ize.

Verb

anonymize (third-person singular simple present anonymizes, present participle anonymizing, simple past and past participle anonymized)

  1. (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, →DOI, 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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