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
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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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