• Monsterise

    Origin

    en + -monster + ise

    Full definition of monsterise

    Verb

      • January 1 1851, ... and it would seem, as if to atone for that deficiency in the eyes of "a hero worshipper," that Macaulay had determined to monsterise him into an embodiment of inconsistency, deceit, and simulation.
      • 1997, Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film, ... (quite literally monsterise) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.
      • 2005, A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers.

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