ILLEGALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does illegalize mean? 

• ILLEGALIZE (verb)
  The verb ILLEGALIZE has 1 sense:

1. declare illegal; outlaw

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLEGALIZE (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 "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