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  • verb transitive To remove the obligatory authorization.

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Examples

  • It was an infamous, a fraudulent subterfuge to divorce my poor mother, and so delegalize me a few months before my birth.

    The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

  • He said he wants to trim state regulations that stifle businesses and delegalize a range of things - including marijuana - that he believes erode at individual freedoms.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • He said he wants to trim state regulations that stifle businesses and delegalize a range of things - including marijuana - that he believes erode at individual freedoms.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By VANESSA GERA 2011

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