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stigmatize - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To characterize or brand as disgraceful or ignominious.
- transitive verb To mark with stigmata or a stigma.
- transitive verb To cause stigmata to appear on.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mark with a stigma or brand.
- To set a mark of disgrace on; disgrace with some mark or term of reproach or infamy.
- To produce red points, sometimes bleeding, in or on: as, a person or the skin stigmatized by hypnotic suggestion.
- Also spelled
stigmatise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To mark with a stigma, or brand.
- transitive verb To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
characterize asdisgraceful orignominious ; to mark with astigma orstigmata .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin stigmatizāre, to brand, from Greek stigmatizein, to mark, from stigma, stigmat-, tattoo mark; see stigma.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Medieval Latin stigmatizo ("to brand"), from Ancient Greek στιγματίζω ("to mark"), from στίγμα.
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Examples
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However, he said, he believes continuing to "stigmatize" SNCF more than 60 years after the atrocities were committed is "nonsensical."
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Bob said: There is no reason for you or anyone else to 'stigmatize' or 'censure' a woman for exercising her own ...
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And instead, they're upset about it, because Hezbollah is a "legitimate political party", and banning it will "stigmatize" them.
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He would then point out that the NAMP objection includes the implication that to "stigmatize"
The Rule of Reason 2010
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The government forces every major bank to take bailout money so as to not "stigmatize" any individual bank.
Marginal Revolution 2009
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A leading French Muslim group, the French Council for the Muslim Religion, has warned against studying the burqa, saying it would "stigmatize" Muslims.
KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports 2009
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Columnist says restrictions will cause some banks to opt out of TARP program, 'stigmatize' others, and force government intervention.
BMI Headlines 2009
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He then went on to explain why he wouldn't: It might "stigmatize" receiving banks, don't you see.
Kevin D. Rollins 2009
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Fed: Telling us where our bailout trillions went would "stigmatize" banksters Nice little health care plan you've got there.
Corrente 2009
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5 Of course, determining that a set of assertions is not scientific is not necessarily to "stigmatize" those assertions, but simply to understand their nature; it's not stigmatizing a duck to say that if it quacks and waddles and has feathers, it's a duck.
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Words with the same meaning
- advert to
- allude to
- attaint
- band
- bar
- be taken as
- bedaub
- besmear
- besmirch
- besmoke
- bespangle
- bespatter
- bespeckle
- bespot
- bestain
- blacken
- blaze
- blaze a trail
- blemish
- blot
- blotch
- blow upon
- blur
- brand
- call names
- calumniate
- censure
- chalk
- chalk up
- check
- check off
- checker
- cicatrize
- condemn
- dapple
- darken
- dash
- daub
- defame
- defile
- define
- delimit
- demarcate
- denigrate
- denominate
- denote
- denounce
- depreciate
- designate
- dirty
- disapprove
- discolor
- disparage
- dot
- emblematize
- engage in personalities
- engrave
- expose
- expose to infamy
- figure
- finger
- flake
- fleck
- freckle
- gash
- gibbet
- hang in effigy
- harlequin
- hatch
- heap dirt upon
- impress
- imprint
- iris
- line
- maculate
- make a mark
- marble
- marbleize
- mark
- mark off
- mark out
- motley
- mottle
- muckrake
- name
- nick
- notch
- pencil
- pepper
- pick out
- pillory
- point
- point at
- point out
- point to
- polychrome
- polychromize
- prick
- punch
- punctuate
- puncture
- rainbow
- refer to
- reprimand
- revile
- riddle
- scar
- scarify
- scorch
- score
- scotch
- scratch
- seal
- seam
- sear
- select
- singe
- slander
- slubber
- slur
- smear
- smirch
- smoke
- soil
- spangle
- specify
- speck
- speckle
- splotch
- spot
- sprinkle
- stain
- stamp
- stand for
- stipple
- streak
- striate
- stripe
- stud
- sully
- symbol
- symbolize
- taint
- tarnish
- tattoo
- tessellate
- throw mud at
- tick
- tick off
- trace
- typify
- underline
- underscore
- variegate
- vein
- vilify
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