criminalize

English

Alternative forms

• criminalise (chiefly British)

Etymology

criminal +‎ -ize

Verb

criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)

1. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.

Derived terms

• decriminalize
• recriminalize

See also

• felonize
• misdemeanorize
• illegalize
• outlaw

Translations

to make something be a crime

• Catalan: criminalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: kriminalisoida (fi), tehdä laittomaksı
• French: criminaliser (fr)
• Galician: criminalizar
• German: kriminalisieren (de)
• Greek: ποινικοποιώ (el) (poinikopoió)
• Hebrew: הוציא מחוץ לחוק‎ (hotzí mikhútz lakhók)

• Italian: criminalizzare
• Japanese: 犯罪視する (hanzaishi suru)
• Portuguese: criminalizar (pt)
• Romanian: criminaliza
• Russian: криминализова́ть (ru) impf or pf (kriminalizovátʹ)
• Spanish: criminalizar (es)
• Swedish: kriminalisera (sv)

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Portuguese

Verb

criminalize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of criminalizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of criminalizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of criminalizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of criminalizar