delegitimize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make something less legitimate. transitive
    — 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.
  2. To make something illegal that was previously legal. transitive

词形变化

delegitimizes present,singular,third-person delegitimizing participle,present delegitimized participle,past delegitimized past

词汇关系

衍生词
delegitimizer
相关词
delegitimation delegitimization

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English legitimate
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English legitimize
English delegitimize
From de- + legitimize.
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