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objectify

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Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb objectify has 2 senses

objectify(v = verb.change) exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize - make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Derived forms noun object₁, noun objectification₁, noun objectification₂

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

objectify(v = verb.change) depersonalise, depersonalize - make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

objectify, v. t. [Object + -fy.].

To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to represent or consider as an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

objectify, v.tr. (-ies, -ied)
1 make objective; embody.
2 present as an object of perception.

Derivative

objectification n.

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THESAURUS

objectify

actualize, call to mind, call up, conjure up, envisage, envision, exteriorize, externalize, extrapolate, image, incarnate, just see, manifest, materialize, personalize, personify, picture, project, realize, represent, see, substantiate, summon up, vision, visualize

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