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objectify

 verb
     
ob‧jec‧ti‧fy past tense and past participle objectified, present participle objectifying, third person singular objectifies [transitive] formal
to treat a person or idea as a physical object:
a culture that objectifies women
—objectification noun [uncountable]
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