Usually means: Make official, valid, or acceptable.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word legitimatize:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimatize: Merriam-Webster
  2. legitimatize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. legitimatize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. legitimatize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. legitimatize: Vocabulary.com
  6. legitimatize: Wordnik
  7. legitimatize: Wiktionary
  8. legitimatize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. legitimatize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. legitimatize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Legitimatize, legitimatize: Dictionary.com
  12. Legitimatize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. legitimatize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. legitimatize: Rhymezone
  15. legitimatize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. legitimatize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. legitimatize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Legitimatize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. legitimatize: Legal dictionary
  2. legitimatize: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legitimatize: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (legitimatize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make legitimate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To legalize.

Similar:
legitimize, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, relegitimize, legitimise, relegitimate, officialize, authenticize, more...

Opposite:
illegitimize, invalidate, discredit, delegitimize

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Similar:
legitimize, decriminalize, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, relegitimize, legitimise, relegitimate, officialize, authenticize, more...

Opposite:
illegitimize, invalidate, discredit, delegitimize



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