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

Words nearby stigmatize

stigmasterol, stigmatic, stigmatism, stigmatist, stigmatization, stigmatize, Stijl, Stikine, stilb, stilbene, stilbestrol

Example sentences from the Web for stigmatize

Silke Muschitz, the head of marine personnel for Hapag-Lloyd, said the company has begged governments worldwide to stop stigmatizing seafarers as carriers of disease.
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Throughout history, those who couldn’t speak were disadvantaged, even stigmatized.
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For affected women, the moves shine a light not just on hope for a future where menopause is no longer stigmatized, but on how much still needs to change.
‘I was fired by a client’: Breaking the taboo around menopause and the workplace|Jessica Davies|April 1, 2021|Digiday
A nominal award from Georgia Gwinnett College to Uzuegbunam would acknowledge his injury and stigmatize the college’s behavior, and similar behavior elsewhere, as unconstitutional.
Campus speech rules are hurting students. They deserve recompense — even if it’s just $1.|George Will|March 12, 2021|Washington Post

In each case, the one label was stigmatized, the other accepted.
How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness|Balaji Ravichandran|February 12, 2021|Washington Post
(These kind of comparisons, as the atheist writer Chris Stedman has noted, help stigmatize mental illness).
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I want to de-stigmatize this and get people access to this industry from an educational standpoint.
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We would stigmatize anyone who invested, in any way, in any of these banks.
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Yet he forebore to specify his injuries; saying, that to name them, would be to stigmatize the whole human race.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
And it will be your fault and your crime if it ever returns,—a crime for which history will stigmatize you forever.
The Speeches (In Full) of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and William O'Brien, M.P., on Home Rule, Delivered in Parliament, Feb. 16 and 17, 1888.|W. E. Gladstone
But naturally Mrs. Cleveland was shocked and outraged, and I made haste to stigmatize it as a lie out of whole cloth.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2)|Henry Watterson
What term is strong enough to stigmatize such suicidal folly?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887|Various
Let society stigmatize you, let it stamp its enmity upon you, but seek God's precepts.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 7: Hale to Farrar|Various

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