'Stigmatize' definitions:
Definition of 'stigmatize'
From: WordNet
verb
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]
verb
Mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise]
Definition of 'Stigmatize'
From: GCIDE
- 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]