stigmatize
Other forms: stigmatized; stigmatizing; stigmatizes
If you stigmatize someone, you have given that person a label — and it's usually a label that is limiting in some way.
In Ancient Greece, a stigma was a brand burned into a slave or a criminal's skin to symbolize disgrace. In the 1500s, the word stigmatize meant literally "to brand or tattoo." Nowadays, to stigmatize is to shame or brand a person in a more symbolic way.
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accuse or condemn or openly or formally brand as disgraceful“She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock”synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatisetype of:labelassign a label to; designate with a label
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mark with a stigma or stigmata“They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress”synonyms: stigmatisetype of:markmake or leave a mark on
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