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• v  to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
  She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
• v  mark with a stigma or stigmata
  They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress

• In some parts of the world children of AIDS victims get stigmatized and do not even get admission into local schools.
• Racism in sports cannot go on like this and people must use every resource to stigmatize racism in sports.
• The recent Japanese tsunami tragedy has almost stigmatized the nuclear power corporations.

• stigmatise
• brand
• denounce
• mark

News & Articles

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• Negative Public Health Campaigns May Undermine Weight Loss Goals
  Public health campaigns that stigmatize obese people by using negative images or text do not motivate them to lose weight any more than more neutral campaigns, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
  June 20, 2013 - Newswise

Quotes

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• Muqtada al-Sadr in Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck
  In a statement read to thousands of his supporters, al-Sadr said the agreement would "stigmatize Iraq and its government for years to come."
• Mark Wainberg in National Post
  We must recognize Israel's achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize... Jimmy Carter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGvgCuAi1KzrhIeWzdOkOZTr2npBA Arutz Sheva http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/177001&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGyCfx4EvIcBg-bNiq0zmVKLwWsoA Dec 22, 2009 94726 125887 stigmatize We don't want to stigmatize and, in a way, you are stigmatizing HIV-positive status," said Dr. Wainberg, who received the Order of Canada for his HIV-AIDS research. "We're not doing enough to encourage testing, and decriminalizing...