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English Dictionary: stigmatize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for stigmatize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stigmatize v 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" Synonym(s): stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress" Synonym(s): stigmatize, stigmatise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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. 2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. --Addison.