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Verb: legitimatize  lu'ji-tu-mu,tIz
  1. Make legal
    "The new law legitimatized same-sex marriages";
    - legalize, legalise [Brit], decriminalize, decriminalise [Brit], legitimize, legitimise [Brit], legitimate, legitimatise [Brit]

Derived forms: legitimatized, legitimatizes, legitimatizing

Type of: allow, countenance, let, permit