stigmatize

1. (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.Examples: "We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor."; "Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s."; "This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men."Antonyms: destigmatizetransitive