English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
legal + -ize
Pronunciation[edit]
legalize (third-person singular simple present legalizes, present participle legalizing, simple past and past participle legalized)
- To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
- There is a debate whether or not to legalise some of the softer drugs.
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
make legal
- Arabic: قَنَّنَ (qannana)
- Asturian: llegalizar
- Belarusian: легалізава́ць impf or pf (ljehalizavácʹ)
- Bulgarian: узаконявам (bg) (uzakonjavam), легализирам (bg) (legaliziram)
- Catalan: legalitzar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 合法化 (zh) (héfǎhuà)
- Danish: legalisere
- Dutch: legaliseren (nl)
- Esperanto: legalizi
- Estonian: legaliseerima
- Finnish: laillistaa (fi)
- French: dépénaliser (fr), autoriser (fr), légaliser (fr)
- Galician: legalizar
- German: legalisieren (de)
- Hungarian: legalizál (hu), törvényesít (hu)
- Indonesian: mengesahkan (id), melegalkan (id), melegalisasi (id)
- Italian: legalizzare (it)
- Japanese: 合法化する (ごうほうかする, gōhōka-suru)
- Korean: 합법화(合法化)하다 (hapbeophwahada)
- Maori: whakamana
- Polish: legalizować (pl) impf, zalegalizować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: legalizar (pt)
- Russian: легализова́ть (ru) impf or pf (legalizovátʹ), легализи́ровать (ru) impf (legalizírovatʹ), узако́нивать (ru) impf (uzakónivatʹ), узако́нить (ru) pf (uzakónitʹ)
- Spanish: legalizar (es)
- Swedish: legalisera (sv)
- Ukrainian: легалізува́ти impf or pf (lehalizuváty), узако́нювати impf (uzakónjuvaty), узако́нити pf (uzakónyty)
- Vietnamese: hợp pháp hoá (vi) (合法化)
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Galician[edit]
legalize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of legalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese[edit]
legalize
- inflection of legalizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
