stigmatize Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
stigmatise; brand; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatise.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress

F. stigmatiser, Gr. .

imperfect & past participle Stigmatized ; present participle & verbal noun Stigmatizing

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.
To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. Addison.