LEGALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legalise mean? 

• LEGALISE (verb)
  The verb LEGALISE has 1 sense:

1. make legal

  Familiarity information: LEGALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they legalise    ... he / she / it legalises   
Past simple: legalised   
Past participle: legalised   
-ing form: legalising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make legal

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

decriminalise; decriminalize; legalise; legalize; legitimate; legitimatise; legitimatize; legitimise; legitimize

Context example:

Marijuana should be legalized

Hypernyms (to "legalise" is one way to...):

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "legalise"):

monetise; monetize (give legal value to or establish as the legal tender of a country)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

outlaw (declare illegal; outlaw)

Derivation:

legalisation (the act of making lawful)

 Context examples 

Could we not get a warrant and legalise it?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)