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legalize

verb as in allow, validate

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The first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, Denmark still waves its banner high.

The residents of Arkansas decide Tuesday whether to legalize the sale of an intoxicating substance statewide.

Despite the obvious appeal, the odds are long that Arkansas will legalize alcohol statewide in 2014.

If the president takes unilateral action to legalize millions of people, King said, “it will create a constitutional crisis.”

To paraphrase Peter Tosh, if Illinois were to legalize it, would you advertise it?

The Ashburton treaty was not the law of Canada, because the Government had neglected to legalize it by statute.

Don't you want to get married–to–er–legalize this extraordinary situation in which we are placed?

This conviction or this pretension tends to augment their force amazingly, and contributes no less to legalize their measures.

The law could legalize the King's inclination, and who dare gainsay its enactments?

It would be to legalize the disarrangement of all monetary transactions, and to deprive every creditor of one-fifth of his debts.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to legalize, such as: approve, authorize, codify, constitute, decriminalize, and enact.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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