Recriminalize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To criminalize again; to make (something previously decriminalized) illegal again. transitive
"He looks at Rohit and recalls the rainbows on his cheeks as they walked through the streets when the country recriminalized homosexuality."
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"He looks at Rohit and recalls the rainbows on his cheeks as they walked through the streets when the country recriminalized homosexuality."
Etymology
From re- + criminalize.