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stigmatize |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stigmatize v : to accuse or condemn openly or formally: "He denounced the government action." [syn: {brand}, {denounce}, {mark}]
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