criminalise

Other forms of criminalise

past tense

criminalised·

present participle

criminalising·

third person

criminalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about criminalise

What does criminalise mean?

criminalise means "declare illegal; outlaw".

How many syllables are in criminalise?

criminalise has 4 syllables and divides as cri-mi-na-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for criminalise?

Close synonyms include outlaw, criminalize, illegalize, illegalise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of criminalise?

The recorded antonyms are decriminalise.

Is criminalise a common word?

criminalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.