[syn: stigmatize, stigmatise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stigmatize \Stig"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stigmatized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing.] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. ?.]
1. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients
stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
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That . . . hold out both their ears with such
delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored
through in witness of their own voluntary and
beloved baseness. --Milton.
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2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of
reproach or infamy.
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To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stigmatize
v 1: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as
disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was
stigmatized by society because she had a child out of
wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand,
denounce, mark]
2: mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize
the adulteress" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise]