deviantize
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editdeviantize (third-person singular simple present deviantizes, present participle deviantizing, simple past and past participle deviantized)
- (transitive) To make into, or begin to treat as, a deviant.
- 1992, Ramona MArie Asher, Women with alcoholic husbands: ambivalence and the trap of codependency:
- Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the "illness" codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).