criminalize
kri muh nuh lahyz
- v treat as a criminal
- v declare illegal; outlaw
Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S.
- Islands like Barbados still criminalize homosexuality, and some seem to be following Jamaica's more violent example.
- Only an overzealous prosecutor and a liberal Washington jury would criminalize a bad one, he argued.
- While I think Brownell is wrong to criminalize Ronald, we agree about the dangers of childhood obesity.