Recriminalize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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."

Example

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"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.

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