criminalize

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
2. verb To treat as a criminal.

Similar words

illegalize outlaw punish penalize incriminate blame repress condemn suppress prosecute

Often followed by

the abortion homosexual a and all certain such only it

Word family

criminalization criminalizations criminalized criminalizes criminalizing