depersonalize

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Treating people or animals badly
a raw dealidiom
abuser
anti-harassment
at the hands of someoneidiom
batten
batten on someone
hit someone where it hurtsidiom
ill-treat
ill-treatment
ill-used
impose
prey on something
put someone through something
put upon
reduce
uncared for
use
victimization
victimize
victimology

Examples of objectify

objectify
Higher-orderness then consists of the ability to objectify such functions and, thereby, to embed them in data or pass them as arguments to other functions.
I have been looking for dimensions by which the value of objects is objectified and which may be grasped archaeologically.
Statistical measurement - the conversion of economic phenomena into numbers - objectified the crisis and surrounded it with the aura of ' scientific ' objectivity.
The past, childhood and tradition were not elsewhere, but immediately present, not objectified but lived.
There is always the risk, however much the notion of choice is objectified, that an element of subjectivity remains.
This was a journey in which the matter itself was concrete time, fixed by the machine which objectified the material delivered to the sensory experience.
This power is objectified and impersonal, and its gender bias has hitherto been invisible.
The concept of value has been approached here as a judgement about goods which is objectified by desirability for them and accessibility to them.
We have failed to find a code through which thefindingsof criticism can be objectified and communicated to others.
It could miniaturize her, objectify her, and bring her safely home from the park to the palm of the hand.
With words, they were also inclined to objectify their thoughts.
Major structural and conceptual transformations in dementia care-giving are needed - from objectified commodity to community.
There we have an object that exists for our perception, because it has objectified itself in its turn.
She simultaneously objectifies these women while identifying with the male subject of the action.
The phenomenological method proposes itself as an alternative to the mechanical model employed in the exact sciences, perceived as fracturing and objectifying human subjectivity.
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