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felonize

verb
/ˈfɛlənaɪz/

Etymology

From felony + -ize.

  1. derived from felonie
  2. inherited from felony
  3. suffixed as felonize — “felony + ize”

Definitions

  1. To classify a crime as a felony.

    • January 2015 The War on Drugs Is Burning Out Rolling Stone Prop 47 also de-felonized nonviolent theft of less than $950.
    • Big Car has figured out that if it encrypts its diagnostic messages, it can felonize third-party diagnosis of a car, because decrypting the messages violates the DMCA

  2. To classify a person as a felon.

The neighborhood

Derived

de-felonize, re-felonize

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for felonize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA