This is the 4601st most frequent Portuguese word.
criminaliza
"Criminaliza" means "criminalizes," referring to the act of making something illegal or treating it as a crime.
The word 'criminaliza' is used in a legal context to indicate that drug trafficking is defined as a crime according to the law.
A lei criminaliza o tráfico de drogas.
The law criminalizes drug trafficking.
'criminaliza' here is used to describe the legislative action that makes government corruption punishable as a crime.
A política criminaliza atos de corrupção governamental.
The policy criminalizes acts of governmental corruption.
In this sentence, 'criminaliza' is employed metaphorically to express societal tendencies to unjustly label marginalized individuals as criminal or deviant.