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stigmatize

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Stigmatize (verb) means to treat someone or something as shameful, or to mark them with a stigma.

verb

To treat someone or something as shameful, or to mark them with a stigma.

"This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men." — Daphne C. Watkins, Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience (2012)

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