Stigmatize Definition

stĭgmə-tīz
stigmatized, stigmatizes, stigmatizing
verb
stigmatized, stigmatizes, stigmatizing
To mark with a stigma, stigmas, or stigmata.
Webster's New World
To characterize or mark as disgraceful.
Webster's New World
To cause stigmata to appear on.
American Heritage
To cause stigmata to appear on.
American Heritage Medicine

Origin of Stigmatize

  • Medieval Latin stigmatizāre to brand from Greek stigmatizein to mark from stigma stigmat- tattoo mark stigma

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin stigmatizo (“to brand"), from Ancient Greek στιγματίζω (stigmatizō, “to mark"), from στίγμα (stigma).

    From Wiktionary

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