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illegalise

illegalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of illegalize.

Meaning of illegalize

Verb

illegalize (third-person singular simple present illegalizes, present participle illegalizing, simple past and past participle illegalized)

  1. To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.
    • Only as recently as 1991 was the rape by a husband of his wife illegalised.2000, Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson, Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law, page 111

Forms of illegalise

third-person singular presentillegalises
present participleillegalising
past participleillegalised
pastillegalised

Origin of illegalise

From illegal + -ise.

Questions about illegalise

What is illegalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Illegalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of illegalize.

Words near illegalise in the dictionary

  1. illegal primes
  2. illegaler
  3. illegalest
  4. illegalisation
  5. illegalisations
  6. illegalise
  7. illegalised
  8. illegalises
  9. illegalising
  10. illegalism
  11. illegalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: illegalise (page history and authors); illegalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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