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third-person singular simple present pathologizes, present participle pathologizing, simple past and past participle pathologized
(transitive) To characterize as a pathology or disease; to characterize (a person) as suffering from a disease. quotations examples
Many pain patients have had doctors who pathologized them, told them their pain was unreal.
2001 December 16, Melanie Thernstrom, “Pain, the Disease”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 July 2011
To pathologize China's industries as corrupt not only reeks of centuries-old Yellow Peril rhetoric but also fails to acknowledge the shortcomings of transnational regulations.
2007 July 23, Rachel Endo, “Inbox”, in Time
My automatic reaction was to deal with the anxiety he evoked in me by pathologizing him as paranoid and obsessive compulsive.
2009, Joseph G. Ponterotto et al., Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, page 142