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recriminalize

verb

Etymology

From re- + criminalize.

  1. derived from crimen
  2. derived from criminalis
  3. derived from criminal
  4. inherited from cryminal
  5. formed as criminalize — “criminal + -ize”
  6. prefixed as recriminalize — “re + criminalize”

Definitions

  1. To criminalize again

    To criminalize again; to make (something previously decriminalized) illegal again.

    • He looks at Rohit and recalls the rainbows on his cheeks as they walked through the streets when the country recriminalized homosexuality.

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