In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
OBJECTIFIED
OBJECTIFY
depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
(verb) make impersonal or present as an object; “Will computers depersonalize human interactions?”; “Pornography objectifies women”
exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify
(verb) make external or objective, or give reality to; “language externalizes our thoughts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
objectified
simple past tense and past participle of objectify
Adjective
objectified (comparative more objectified, superlative most objectified)
Treated as an object
Source: Wiktionary
OBJECTIFY
Ob*jec"ti*fy, v. t. Etym: [Object + -fy.]
Definition: To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective. J. D. Morell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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