delegitimize
verb 2
Definitions
verb
1
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.
As that campaign seeks to do, fighting ISIS means delegitimizing Caliphism at home and abroad.
2
To make something illegal that was previously legal.
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