criminalize

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Etymology

From criminal +‎ -ize.

Verb

criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
    • 2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine‎:
      The Nixon campaign in 1968 […] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
  2. (transitive) To treat as a criminal.

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Galician

Verb

criminalize

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criminalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

criminalize

  1. inflection of criminalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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