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monsterize en · VERB

Etymology

From monster + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To make something or someone into a monster.
    • "IRON-ON" MONSTERS Itie newest way to "Monsterize" your shirts. T-shirts, sweat shirts, jeans, jackets, notebooks-any tiling 2010, Forrest J Ackerman, Vampirella Archives, volume 1, page 331:
  2. To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.
    • “I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization. 2006, Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa:
    • Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose 2003, Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity, page 25:
    • 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. 2002, Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture, page 93:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
monsterized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
monsterized Tense=Past lexicographic
monsterizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
monsterise alternative lexicographic
monsterizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Hyponyms

vampirise · vampirize · zombify

Relateds

monsterization

Synonyms

trash-talk · depreciate · disparage · talk shite · talk shit · blur · denigrate · deprave · discredit · stab · vilify · smear · slander · speak ill of · backbite · cloud · muddy · scandal · monster · blaze · infamize · chat shite · revile · blacken · disgrace · spatter · diss · detract · traduce · slag · tarnish · stain · monsterize · blot · calumny · demonize · talk trash · lampoon · bewray · infamize · wrong · besmear · torch · foul · forspeak · disrepute · blemish · villainize · shit-talk · malign · drag through the mud · dirty · denigrate · vilipend · forgab · calumniate · smirch · villainize · spot · assassinate · libel · belibel · defame · besmirch · blame · sully · badmouth · unflatter · asperse · befoul · chat shit · reproach