legitimize

1. V-T To legitimize something, especially something bad, means to officially allow it, approve it, or make it seem acceptable. 使(尤其是壞事)合法化; 正式批準(zhǔn)(或認(rèn)可)[正式]

They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country. 他們不會(huì)接受任何使國(guó)家民族分裂合法化的協(xié)議。