stigmatize

stigmatize is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
2. transitive verb. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
3. verb. mark with a stigma or stigmata

   "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"

   Synonyms: stigmatise

4. verb. to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

   "He denounced the government action"

   "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"

   Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatise

Synonyms

stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark

Common word forms

stigmatized, stigmatizer, stigmatizes, stigmatizing

Words from these letters

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