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monsterize
monsterize
English
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Verb
monsterize (third-person singular simple present monsterizes, present participle monsterizing, simple past and past participle monsterized)
- To make something or someone into a monster.
- To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.
- 2002, Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture, page 93:
- The particular conjunction of politics and 'monsters' in Richard III 'monsterizes' an already 'monstrous' language and institution, a reflection of the level of anxiety generated by the succession crisis in the 1590s.