objectify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make external or objective, or give reality to
    exteriorise; externalise; externalize; exteriorize.
    • language externalizes our thoughts
  2. verb make impersonal or present as an object
    depersonalize; depersonalise.
    • Will computers depersonalize human interactions?
    • Pornography objectifies women

WordNet

Ob*jec"ti*fy transitive verb
Etymology
Object + -fy.
Definitions
  1. To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.

Webster 1913