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illegalization

noun

Etymology

From illegalize + -ation or il- + legalization.

  1. derived from legalis
  2. derived from illegalis
  3. borrowed from illégal
  4. suffixed as illegalize — “illegal + ize”
  5. suffixed as illegalization — “illegalize + ation”

Definitions

  1. The act or process of illegalizing.

    • “Once the drug illegalization crowd gets hold of it, that’s that,” said Alexander Shulgin, a former Dow chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA, or ecstasy, which has also been made a controlled substance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for illegalization. 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