destigmatizev.
/(ˌ)diːˈstɪɡmətʌɪz/, U.S. /diˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz/, /dəˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz/ transitive. To remove the negative connotation or social stigma associated with (something formerly regarded as shameful or disgraceful); to free (a person or thing) from public censure or condemnation; to make socially acceptable.
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1946 F. T. Giles Juvenile Courts ix. 106 The whole procedure would be not only destigmatized but also dedramatized.
1967 E. Cumming in M. N. Zald Organizing Community Welfare ii. 139 There is little likelihood that even our best efforts will succeed in destigmatizing..psychiatric illness.
1973 Phi Delta Kappan 54 330/3 Let us try more determinedly to destigmatize the non-college-bound who choose to enter productive work.
1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 10 Aug. 36 If we are to continue the process of destigmatising same-gender sex then we need to do it on television.
2004 New Yorker 24 May 37/1 We really need to destigmatize the condom.
2013 J. G. Raymond Not Choice, Not Job i. 13 As for the claim that legal regimes destigmatize women, those actually destigmatized are the men who buy and the pimps..who sell.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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