Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Stigmatize \Stig"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stigmatized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Stigmatizing}.] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. ?.]
1. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients
stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
That . . . hold out both their ears with such
delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored
through in witness of their own voluntary and
beloved baseness. --Milton.
2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of
reproach or infamy.
To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.
Source : WordNet®
stigmatize
v 1: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as
disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She
was stigmatized by society because she had a child out
of wedlock" [syn: {stigmatise}, {brand}, {denounce}, {mark}]
2: mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize
the adulteress" [syn: {stigmatise}]