stig·ma·tize /ˈstɪgməˌtaɪz/
(vt.)打烙印,誣衊
Stig·ma·tize v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stigmatized p. pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing ]
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.
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stigmatize
v 1: 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" [syn: stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark]
2: mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize
the adulteress" [syn: stigmatise]