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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;
- Example: "He denounced the government action"
- Example: "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;
- Example: "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"
[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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. [1913 Webster] To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
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]