delegitimize

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delegitimize

verb delegitimizes · delegitimizing · delegitimized

transitive To make something less legitimate. Iran could not be happier. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel’s colonialism rather than Iran’s nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.
Similar: delegitimate
transitive To make something illegal that was previously legal.
Similar: delegitimate, criminalize, illegalize

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Español	deslegitimar
Português	deslegitimar
Français	délégitimer

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@misc{delegitimize_2026,
  title = {delegitimize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/delegitimize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}