Stigmatize

Definition: Stigmatize

Stigmatize

Verb

1. To accuse or condemn openly or formally: "He denounced the government action.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stigmatize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Note: Stigmatize \Stig"ma*tize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Stigmatized; present participle verb or noun Stigmatizing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stigmatize

Accusation

Brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account; (censure); take to blame, take to task; put in the black book.

Disapprobation

Accuse; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry "shame" upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.

Disrepute

Impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend.

Crosswords: Stigmatize

Women

Pakistan

Women are reluctant to file charges because of societal mores that stigmatize divorce and make women economically and psychologically dependent on their relatives. (references)

Worker Rights

Bulgaria

Prevailing public attitudes often stigmatize victims, although there are some signs that this may be changing slowly. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

mbuloj me turp, damkos (earmark). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ندد (inveigh), ‏وسم بميسم, ‏وصم (deafen, stun), ‏شوه سمعة (denigrate), ‏شجب (condemn, condemnation, decry, denounce, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, fulminate, rail, reprehend). (various references)

Bulgarian 

клеймя, опозорявам (attaint, bring on reproach, defame, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, gibbet, tear down), петня (blaspheme, blemish, cast reflection on, denigrate, disfigure, libel, pollute, slur, smear, smirch, soil, speck, spot, stain, sully, tarnish). (various references)

Czech

stigmatizovat, oznaèit (denote, describe, designate, highlight, indicate, inscribe, label, Mark, prick, sign, signify, term). (various references)

Farsi 

نشان دارکردن (Stamp, Tab), لکه دارکردن (Blame, Blemish, Brand, Denigrate, Foul, Smear, Soil, Speck, Stain, Sully, Taint, Tarnish), داغ ننگ زدن بر. (various references)

French

stigmatiser. (various references)

German

brandmarken (brand, denounce). (various references)

Greek 

στιγματίζω (brand). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שמיץ (back bite, badmouth, blacken, defame, denigrate, malign, slander, slur, smear, traduce, vilify), ל�"כתים (smirch, stain, taint, tarnish). (various references)

Hungarian

megjelöl (denote, earmark, Mark, tick, to appoint, to assign, to brand, to charcoal, to check, to earmark, to label, to prick, to sign, to tick, to tick off, to trace), megbélyegez (brand, denounce, to brand, to condemn, to stigmatize). (various references)

Indonesian

mencap (brand, place a seal on, stamp). (various references)

Italian

stigmatizzare (stigmatise). (various references)

Manx

floutyraght (mock, rebut, reproach, scorn, slander), faagail cron er (scar, spot, stain). (various references)

Pig Latin

igmatizestay

Portuguese

estigmatizar (brand). (various references)

Romanian

stigmatiza (badge, brand, denunciate, post, sear), veşteji (sear, wilt, wither), înfiera (brand). (various references)

Russian 

клеймить (cauterize, impress, stamp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stigmatizovati, žigosati (brand, earmark, sear, stamp). (various references)

Spanish

estigmatizar (brand). (various references)

Swedish

stigmatisera, brännmärka (brand, burn, post). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เสื่อมเสียชื่อเสียง (drag someone through the mud, drag someone's name through the mire). (various references)

Turkish

lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, humiliate, lessen, lower, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stultify, take smb. down a peg), kınamak (blame, cast reflection on smb., castigate, censure, condemn, decry, denounce, disapprove, fault, remonstrate, reprimand, reproach, reprobate, reprove, slate, strafe), damgalamak (brand, cancel, impress, incuse, Mark, postmark, print, print on, seal, stamp), dağlamak (brand, cauterize, sear). (various references)

Turkmen 

tagmalamak (brand). (various references)

Ukrainian

таврувати ганьбою, таврувати (brand, burn, cauterize, earmark, note). (various references)

Welsh

gwarthnodi (brand). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stigmatize": stigmatized, stigmatizes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stigmatize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sitgmatize, stigmaize, stigmatire, stigmitize. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mitigates.

-2 letters: imitates, mitigate.

-3 letters: amities, etatism, gamiest, imagist, imitate, maziest, mestiza, mitiest, sigmate.

-4 letters: ageism, ageist, gamest, images, maizes, mattes, misate, miseat, samite, stigma, tamest.

-5 letters: aegis, agism, agist, amies, emits, gaits, games, gates, gazes, getas, image, items, mages, maist, maize, mates, matte, matts, mazes, meats, metis, mites, mitis, mitts, satem, sigma, smaze, smite.

+1 letter: stigmatized, stigmatizes.

+3 letters: legitimatizes, metastasizing, systematizing.

+4 letters: magnetizations.

+5 letters: geometrizations, legitimizations, resystematizing.