criminalize
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- criminalise (chiefly British)
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)
- (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
- 2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine[1]:
- The Nixon campaign in 1968 […] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
- (transitive) To treat as a criminal.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to make something be a crime
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to treat as a criminal
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See also[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
criminalize
- inflection of criminalizar: