criminalize

• criminalise (chiefly British)

criminal +‎ -ize

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.
   • 2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine‎:

     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.

2. (transitive) To treat as a criminal.

• criminalization
• decriminalize
• recriminalize

• felonize
• misdemeanorize
• illegalize
• outlaw

criminalize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criminalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

criminalize

1. inflection of criminalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative