英和和英

語源

From criminal +‎ -ize.

動詞

criminalize (third-person singular simple present criminalizes, present participle criminalizing, simple past and past participle criminalized)

1. (transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
   • 2016 April 1, Dan Baum, quoting John Ehrlichman, “Legalize It All”, in Harper's Magazine‎:

     The Nixon campaign in 1968 […] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.

2. (transitive) To treat as a criminal.

派生語

参考

• felonize
• misdemeanorize
• illegalize
• outlaw