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Criminalise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard

    "As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body."

  2. 2
    declare illegal; outlaw wordnet

Etymology

From criminal + -ise.

See also for "criminalise"

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