anonymize

• anonymise (UK)

From anonymous + -ize.

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[.]