"criminalize" meaning in All languages combined

See criminalize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: criminalizes [present, singular, third-person], criminalizing [participle, present], criminalized [participle, past], criminalized [past], criminalise [alternative, British]
Etymology: From criminal + -ize. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*krey-}}, {{af|en|criminal|-ize}} criminal + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)
  1. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban. Tags: transitive Translations (to make something be a crime): جَرَّمَ (jarrama) (Arabic), criminalitzar (Catalan), kriminalisoida (Finnish), tehdä laittomaksi (Finnish), criminaliser (French), prohibir (Galician), ilegalizar (Galician), penalizar (Galician), ποινικοποιώ (poinikopoió) (Greek), הוציא מחוץ לחוק (hotzí mikhútz lakhók) (Hebrew), criminalizzare (Italian), 犯罪視する (hanzaishi suru) (Japanese), 犯罪化する (hanzaika suru) (Japanese), criminalizar (Portuguese), criminaliza (Romanian), криминализова́ть (kriminalizovátʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), prohibir (Spanish), ilegalizar (Spanish), penalizar (Spanish), kriminalisera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-criminalize-en-verb-hqQIvwn5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Crime Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 69 31 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 10 4 37 6 37 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Crime: 100 0 Disambiguation of 'to make something be a crime': 100 0
  2. (transitive) To treat as a criminal. Tags: transitive Translations (to treat as a criminal): criminalitzar (Catalan), kohdella kuin rikollista (Finnish), leimata rikolliseksi (Finnish), criminaliser (French), criminalizar (Galician), kriminalisieren (German), criminalizzare (Italian), criminalizar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-criminalize-en-verb-RJz0FmGf Disambiguation of 'to treat as a criminal': 4 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: criminalizable, criminalization, criminalizer, decriminalize, overcriminalization, recriminalize Related terms: felonize, misdemeanorize, illegalize, outlaw

Verb [Galician]

Head templates: {{head|gl|verb form}} criminalize
  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criminalizar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: criminalizar
    Sense id: en-criminalize-gl-verb-7PVRq1vv Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Galician entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 10 4 37 6 37 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 2 42 4 42 4 Disambiguation of Galician entries with incorrect language header: 76 24
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criminalizar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: criminalizar
    Sense id: en-criminalize-gl-verb-aQRCzSte

Verb [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{head|pt|verb form}} criminalize
  1. inflection of criminalizar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: criminalizar
    Sense id: en-criminalize-pt-verb-7PVRq1vv Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 10 4 37 6 37 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 2 42 4 42 4 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 76 24
  2. inflection of criminalizar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: criminalizar
    Sense id: en-criminalize-pt-verb-aQRCzSte

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "\"Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement.\"",
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          "text": "Italy passed a law on Wednesday that criminalizes seeking surrogacy abroad, a move the country’s conservative government said would protect women’s dignity, while critics see it as yet another crackdown by the government on L.G.B.T. families, as the law will make it virtually impossible for gay fathers to have children.",
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      "word": "felonize"
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          "ref": "2015, Gregg Barak, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful:",
          "text": "\"Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement.\"",
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          "text": "The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.",
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          "ref": "2024 April 22, Shawn Hubler, “Homelessness Case Draws Unusual Alliances: Conservatives and California Democrats”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Advocates for homeless people, the American Psychiatric Association and several left-leaning states, including New York, Illinois and Minnesota, argue that criminalizing homelessness only worsens the problem.",
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          "text": "A group of homeless residents sued the city, challenging the ordinances and contending that the local laws essentially criminalized homelessness.",
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          "ref": "2024 October 16, Emma Bubela, “Italy Criminalizes Surrogacy From Abroad, a Blow to Gay and Infertile Couples”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Italy passed a law on Wednesday that criminalizes seeking surrogacy abroad, a move the country’s conservative government said would protect women’s dignity, while critics see it as yet another crackdown by the government on L.G.B.T. families, as the law will make it virtually impossible for gay fathers to have children.",
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        "(transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban."
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        "(transitive) To treat as a criminal."
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      "sense": "to make something be a crime",
      "word": "جَرَّمَ"
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