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third-person singular simple present anathematizes, present participle anathematizing, simple past and past participle anathematized
(transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil. quotations examples
These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
1850, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in White Jacket
Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.
1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rowdy of the Cross L
"Next!" steps gingerly in to confront the medical eye fastened questioningly upon him. "Crook in the guts," he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously treated and disgusted patients - have left him doubtful, and he casts, an 'anathematising eye upon the "Black Jack" bottle. "Tabloids and duty!" says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief.
1914 October 11, The Sunday Times, Perth, Australia, page 1, column 9
Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."
2009 February 13, Candace de Russy, “Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'”, in American Thinker, retrieved 21 Feb. 2009