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

Translations

to make something be a crime

• Asturian: illegalizar
• Catalan: il·legalitzar (ca), criminalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: kriminalisoida (fi)
• Galician: ilegalizar
• German: kriminalisieren (de)

• Greek: ποινικοποιώ (el) (poinikopoió)
• Hebrew: הוציא מחוץ לחוק (hotzí mikhútz lakhók)
• Portuguese: ilegalizar (pt), criminalizar (pt)
• Spanish: ilegalizar