Thesaurus: stigmatize

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1. v. t. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
2. v. t. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
3. v. to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
4. v. mark with a stigma or stigmata
5. 1. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness. Milton. 2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. Addison.
6. v:100 v. to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful v. mark with a stigma or stigmata