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Topic: LAW

criminalize

 verb
     
crim‧i‧nal‧ize also criminalise British English [transitive]
SCL to make something illegal, or to say that someone is a criminal because of something they have done [≠ decriminalize]:
The government has introduced new legislation to criminalize computer hacking.
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