objectify

IPA: ʌbdʒˈɛktʌfaɪ

To make (something, such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.
To treat (something) as objectively real.
To treat (someone) as a mere (often sexual) object, denying their dignity.

Examples of "objectify" in Sentences

To 'objectify' is to perceive or regard a person as an object.
She strikes me as a woman who would not "objectify" herself -- she doesn't need to do so, being at the top of her sport.
The reasoning in the article is poor, and the author's claim that the word objectify "is often used, but rarely defined" is absurd.
Therefore, pornography cannot "objectify" a sexual act as the author claims, because an act in itself does not have any humanity to lose.
A favorite example of mine is the old feminist declaration that men "objectify" women when they respond to female beauty as nature decrees.
To a certain extent, it's more accepted that they "objectify" themselves, because they're guys, and guys are like, supposed to do that or something. said ...
Another argument for the view that Republicans make better poker players is that poker rewards what feminists have long considered one of the worst attributes of men: the capacity to "objectify" the other.
Sexual Relations With Hot Models - I never said the items on this list had to be "things," although I suppose a person who makes a living by selling products based entirely upon how they looking wearing and/or holding those things does kind of objectify them.