stigmatize

stigmatize or stigmatise (ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz)

—vb
1.	to mark out or describe (as something bad)
2.	to mark with a stigma or stigmata

stigmatise or stigmatise

—vb

stigmati'zation or stigmatise

—n

stigmati'sation or stigmatise

—n

'stigmatizer or stigmatise

—n

'stigmatiser or stigmatise

—n

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Example sentences

We do not want to stigmatize those with the disorder.

Establish a climate that encourages and does not stigmatize healthy eating and

physical activity.

To succeed, a program for producing mid-level industrial engineers here

couldn't stigmatize the program.

State that this is a health-related medical recommendation and is not meant to

judge or stigmatize them.

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"There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people."

-Dennis Altman