delegalize

[ dee-lee-guh-lahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, de·le·gal·ized, de·le·gal·iz·ing.

1. to revoke the statutory authorization of.

Word History and Origins

Origin of delegalize¹

de- + legalize

Example Sentences

It was an infamous, a fraudulent subterfuge to divorce my poor mother, and so delegalize me a few months before my birth.

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