Past tense of criminalize

Forms of criminalize

Criminalized in a sentence

• A group of homeless residents sued the city, challenging the ordinances and contending that the local laws essentially criminalized homelessness.2024 June 28, Abbie VanSickle, “Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Sleeping Outdoors in Homelessness Case”, in The New York Times
• Should, for example, intentionally misreleasing or destroying a key be criminalized?1995, Coping with U.S. Export Controls, page 925. From the entry misrelease
• We're demonized and criminalized as perverts out to trick and deceive cis hetero men; therefore anything that happens to us, we 'had coming.'2017 November 21, Trish Bendix, quoting Ashlee Marie Preston, “Why it matters that transgender women are speaking out about Jeffrey Tambor…. From the entry cis
• The next decade would culminate in a tsunami of legislation, civil litigation, and criminal prosecutions in which assisted suicide was both criminalized (as in Michigan) and decriminalized (as in Oregon).2012, Demetra M. Pappas, The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry tsunami

Meaning of criminalize

1. verb To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
2. verb To treat as a criminal.

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Questions about the past tense of criminalize

What is the past tense of criminalize?

The past tense of criminalize is criminalized.

What is the past participle of criminalize?

The past participle of criminalize is criminalized.

Is criminalize a regular or irregular verb?

Criminalize is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.