stigmatize

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) stigmatise

Verb

stigmatize (third-person singular simple present stigmatizes, present participle stigmatizing, simple past and past participle stigmatized)

1. (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
   • 1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon:

     We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.

Antonyms

• destigmatize

Translations

to characterize as disgraceful or ignominious

Finnish: leimata (fi)

Greek: στιγματίζω (el) (stigmatízo)