decriminalised in English
verb
1
cease by legislation to treat (something) as illegal.
a battle to decriminalize drugs
verb
legitimatelegitimizelegalizelegitimatiselegitimatize
Use "decriminalised" in a sentence
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1. In employing essentially utilitarian criteria, the Wolfenden Committee gave rise to legislation which decriminalised certain forms of homosexual conduct.
2. But since then, consensual same-sex sexual conduct has been deCriminalised by states in Africa, the Americas and the Pacific