deviantize

Verb

deviantize (third-person singular simple present deviantizes, present participle deviantizing, simple past and past participle deviantized)

1. (transitive) To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant.
   • Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).1992, Ramona MArie Asher, Women with alcoholic husbands: ambivalence and the trap of codependency