Usually means: Undermine the legitimacy or validity.
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  1. delegitimize: Merriam-Webster
  2. delegitimize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delegitimize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delegitimize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delegitimize: Wordnik
  6. delegitimize: Wiktionary
  7. delegitimize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. delegitimize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. delegitimize: Dictionary.com
  10. delegitimize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. delegitimize: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (delegitimize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make something less legitimate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make something illegal that was previously legal.

Similar:
delegitimatize, delegitimise, delegitimatise, delegalize, deauthenticate, nullify, invalidate, outlaw, depopularize, disestablish, more...

Opposite:
legitimize, validate, authorize, approve

Types:
make illegitimate, make illegal, make unauthorized, make unlicensed, make uncertified, more...

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Similar:
delegitimatize, delegitimise, delegitimatise, delegalize, deauthenticate, nullify, invalidate, outlaw, depopularize, disestablish, more...

Opposite:
legitimize, validate, authorize, approve

Types:
make illegitimate, make illegal, make unauthorized, make unlicensed, make uncertified, more...



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