Usually means: Eliminating criminal penalties for actions.
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  4. decriminalise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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▸ verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decriminalize. [(transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.]

Similar:
criminalise, legalise, legalize, illegalise, deinstitutionalise, democratise, criminalize, deradicalise, demedicalise, degrammaticalise, more...

Opposite:
criminalize, prohibit, ban, forbid, outlaw

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Similar:
criminalise, legalise, legalize, illegalise, deinstitutionalise, democratise, criminalize, deradicalise, demedicalise, degrammaticalise, more...

Opposite:
criminalize, prohibit, ban, forbid, outlaw



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