Delegitimize

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To revoke the legal or legitimate status of: "Out of poverty sprout social instability and desperation, which delegitimize governments that declare themselves democratic” ( Oscar Arias Sanchez).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make something illegal that was previously legal
  • Word Usage
    "The difficult term delegitimize, which seems to be the best way to describe the event, has been said,"