objectify

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
objectify
    v 1: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language
         externalizes our thoughts" [syn: {exteriorize},
         {exteriorise}, {externalize}, {externalise}, {objectify}]
    2: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers
       depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies
       women" [syn: {depersonalize}, {depersonalise}, {objectify}]
       [ant: {individualise}, {individualize}, {personalise},
       {personalize}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Objectify \Ob*jec"ti*fy\, 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 +PJC]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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