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stigmatise

stigmatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stigmatize.

Meaning of stigmatize

Verb

stigmatize (third-person singular simple present stigmatizes, present participle stigmatizing, simple past and past participle stigmatized)

  1. (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
    • We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.1819-1820, Washington Irving, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
    Antonyms:
    destigmatize

Forms of stigmatise

third-person singular presentstigmatises
present participlestigmatising
past participlestigmatised
paststigmatised

Questions about stigmatise

What is stigmatise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Stigmatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stigmatize.

Words near stigmatise in the dictionary

  1. stigmatics
  2. stigmatiferous
  3. stigmatiform
  4. stigmatisation
  5. stigmatisations
  6. stigmatise
  7. stigmatised
  8. stigmatiser
  9. stigmatises
  10. stigmatising
  11. stigmatism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stigmatise (page history and authors); stigmatize (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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