stigmatize
verb(British English also stigmatise)
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stigmatize | |
| he / she / it stigmatizes | |
| past simple stigmatized | |
| past participle stigmatized | |
| -ing form stigmatizing |
- stigmatize somebody/something
to treat somebody in a way that makes them feel that they are very bad or unimportant 使感到羞耻；侮蔑 Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘mark with a brand’): from French stigmatiser or medieval Latin stigmatizare, from Greek stigmatizein, from stigma ‘a mark made by a pointed instrument, a dot’.