stigmatize

[ stig-muh-tahyz ]

/ ˈstɪg məˌtaɪz /

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verb (used with object), stig·ma·tized, stig·ma·tiz·ing.

to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon: The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.

to mark with a stigma or brand.

to produce stigmata, marks, spots, or the like, on.

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Also especially British, stig·ma·tise .

Origin of stigmatize

1575–85; <Medieval Latin stigmatizāre, equivalent to stigmat- (see stigmatic) + -izāre-ize

OTHER WORDS FROM stigmatize

stig·ma·ti·za·tion, nounstig·ma·tiz·er, nounde·stig·ma·tize, verb (used with object), de·stig·ma·tized, de·stig·ma·tiz·ing.un·stig·ma·tized, adjective

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How to use stigmatize in a sentence

Conservatives had so successfully stigmatized the Doctrine that it had become, at best, a distraction.
The Fairness Doctrine won’t solve our problems — but it can foster needed debate|Victor Pickard|February 4, 2021|Washington Post
Because the NFL has fared surprisingly well, teams with outbreaks have been stigmatized.
The Cleveland Browns were an NFL feel-good story. Then the coronavirus got jealous.|Jerry Brewer|January 6, 2021|Washington Post
The whole point of these kinds of surveillance practices is to coerce people and intimidate them in the shadows, to make it deliberately feel stigmatizing, to make them feel cut off from their community.
Supreme Court rules for Muslims placed on no-fly list after refusing to become FBI informants|Robert Barnes|December 10, 2020|Washington Post
Because most sociological research still rarely considers the role of behavioral genetics, many scholars hold that humans stigmatize the close relatives of people with significant dysfunction for reasons of mere proximity.
Why We Judge People Based on Their Relatives - Facts So Romantic|Diana Fleischman|November 11, 2020|Nautilus

Cetron had talked openly about how that power had been used in the past as a weapon to stigmatize.
Inside the Fall of the CDC|by James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg|October 15, 2020|ProPublica

British Dictionary definitions for stigmatize

stigmatize

stigmatise

/ (ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz) /

verb (tr)

to mark out or describe (as something bad)

to mark with a stigma or stigmata

Derived forms of stigmatize

stigmatization or stigmatisation, nounstigmatizer or stigmatiser, noun

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