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stigmatize
/ ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz /
verb
- to mark out or describe (as something bad)
- to mark with a stigma or stigmata
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Derived Forms
- ˈstigmaˌtizer, noun
- ˌstigmatiˈzation, noun
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Other Words From
- stigma·ti·zation noun
- stigma·tizer noun
- de·stigma·tize verb (used with object) destigmatized destigmatizing
- un·stigma·tized adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stigmatize1
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Example Sentences
(These kind of comparisons, as the atheist writer Chris Stedman has noted, help stigmatize mental illness).
I want to de-stigmatize this and get people access to this industry from an educational standpoint.
We would stigmatize anyone who invested, in any way, in any of these banks.
Yet he forebore to specify his injuries; saying, that to name them, would be to stigmatize the whole human race.
And it will be your fault and your crime if it ever returns,—a crime for which history will stigmatize you forever.
But naturally Mrs. Cleveland was shocked and outraged, and I made haste to stigmatize it as a lie out of whole cloth.
What term is strong enough to stigmatize such suicidal folly?
Let society stigmatize you, let it stamp its enmity upon you, but seek God's precepts.
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