"pathologize" meaning in English

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      "form": "pathologizes",
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      "form": "pathologizing",
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      "form": "pathologized",
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          "word": "pathologisation"
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          "word": "pathologization"
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        {
          "text": "Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder."
        },
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          "ref": "2001 December 16, Melanie Thernstrom, “Pain, the Disease”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-12",
          "text": "Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time",
          "text": "To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Joseph G. Ponterotto et al., Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, page 142",
          "text": "My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.",
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        "To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
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          "pathology",
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        "(transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
      ],
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          "english": "usually synonymous",
          "word": "medicalize"
        },
        {
          "word": "pathologise"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
          "word": "sygeliggøre"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
          "word": "pathologisieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
          "word": "patologizál"
        }
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  "word": "pathologize"
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      "word": "pathologisation"
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      "form": "pathologized",
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        {
          "text": "Some childhood behavior has been pathologized as attention-deficit disorder."
        },
        {
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
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        }
      ],
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        "To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease."
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      "word": "medicalize"
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    {
      "word": "pathologise"
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      "sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
      "word": "sygeliggøre"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
      "word": "pathologisieren"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease",
      "word": "patologizál"
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  "word": "pathologize"
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