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What is the verb for illegal?

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illegalise
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of illegalize.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The charity is campaigning to illegalise lion hunting and stop the EU and USA allowing lion corpses and trophies to be imported.”
      “The futile strategies aimed at the destruction of one's adversary, and, expressed in more specific terms, those that set out to illegalise and politically and socially isolate certain ideas and organisations.”
      “In a paper presented to showcase the experience of the UAE on Spice drugs, it was stated that the UAE has become the first Arab country to illegalise such drugs.”
illegalize
  1. To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize. [from 19th c.]
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Everyone can agree that the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act to illegalize spam e-mail was a good law.”
      “Which leaves us with one moral option: illegalize it, the whole operation.”
      “Secondly, national legislation should be examined to see that it takes adequate measures to illegalize and penalize severely the removal of any protected object from the site.”
illegalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illegalise
illegalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of illegalize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The government has enacted a measure that illegalizes the categorization of learners and teachers by Hutu, Tutsi or Twa affiliations.”
      “Legally, he has been detained because of Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code, which illegalizes insulting the president.”
illegalized
illegalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of illegalise
illegalizing
illegalising
  1. present participle of illegalise
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