CRIMINALISE meaning: Make an action legally punishable

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criminalise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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▸ verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalize. [(transitive) To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.]

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illegalise, penalise, criminalize, legalise, villainise, Christianise, politicise, regularise, foreignise, abolitionise, more...

Opposite:

decriminalize, legalize, legitimize

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