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stigmatize

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}]
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