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stigmatize

[ stig-muh-tahyz ]

verb (used with object)

stigmatized, stigmatizing.
  1. to set some mark of disgrace or infamy upon:

    The crime of the father stigmatized the whole family.

  2. to mark with a stigma or brand.
  3. to produce stigmata, marks, spots, or the like, on.


stigmatize

/ ˈɪɡəˌٲɪ /

verb

  1. to mark out or describe (as something bad)
  2. to mark with a stigma or stigmata
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈپˌپ, noun
  • ˌپپˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • پm·پ·tDz noun
  • پm·پe noun
  • ·پm·پ verb (used with object) destigmatized destigmatizing
  • ܲ·پm·پ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of stigmatize1

1575–85; < Medieval Latin پپ, equivalent to stigmat- ( stigmatic ) + - -ize
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“For patients who are seriously concerned about being stigmatized because of their mental illness, the alternative might be between being cured by an AI and not being cured at all.”

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The Human Rights Campaign has called the executive order "a cruel effort by anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom to further stigmatize and discriminate against LGBTQ+ people across the country."

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She observed that autistic people are an easy group to stigmatize, and “are more likely to have negative judgments made about them based on small interactions.”

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Her academic interests are based not on an imagined Cherokee identity, but as the child of an unmarried interracial couple who was bullied and stigmatized for her race, gender and sex.

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“It’s part of a pretty long history of those tools being used to stigmatize abortion,” he said.

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