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ILLEGALIZE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Declare illegal; outlaw
Example:
Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S.
Synonyms:
criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize; outlaw
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "illegalize" is one way to...):
disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto (command against)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "illegalize"):
ban; censor (forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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