Stigmatize /(?)/

Stig·ma·tize

Stigmatize

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Stigmatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing

  1. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
    That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness.
  2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
    To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.