0 present participle of stigmatize
1 to treat someone or something unfairly by disapproving of him, her, or it:
The very purpose of segregation was to stigmatize people of color -to declare them unfit to share facilities with whites.
Many operations are performed on kids with physical flaws that are clearly stigmatizing, like misshapen breasts or ears that stick way out.
Anybody standing in line can see when they pay with Food Stamps, and it stigmatizes them.
They cited fears they would be stigmatized or that their military careers would be hurt.
The interaction terms were used to test whether ballot initiatives have a stigmatizing effect on racial and ethnic minorities, leading to lower political efficacy.
Accordingly, there have been various attempts at adopting new labels to avoid the stigmatizing effect of the term plagiarism itself.
Additionally, the diagnosis of fibromyalgia is easily accepted by the patients, and is less stigmatizing than psychiatric diagnoses.
Given the generally stigmatizing nature of these disorders, it is likely that reporting bias of this sort leads to an under-estimation of prevalence.
