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ILLEGALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does illegalise mean? 

ILLEGALISE (verb)
  The verb ILLEGALISE has 1 sense:

1. declare illegal; outlawplay

  Familiarity information: ILLEGALISE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ILLEGALISE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Declare illegal; outlaw

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

criminalise; criminalize; illegalise; illegalize; outlaw

Context example:

Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S.

Hypernyms (to "illegalise" is one way to...):

disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto (command against)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "illegalise"):

ban; censor (forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


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