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legalize
  ( legalizes    3rd person present)   ( legalizing    present participle)   ( legalized    past tense & past participle  )
in BRIT, also use legalise      If something is legalized, a law is passed that makes it legal.      verb
Divorce was legalized in 1981.      be V-ed
...the decision of the Georgian government to legalise multi-party elections.      V n
♦   legalization      n-uncount   usu the N of n
She ruled out the legalisation of drugs.

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legalize
allow, approve, authorize, decriminalize, legitimate, legitimize, license, permit, sanction, validate

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