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Monsterise vs Monsterize - What's the difference?

monsterise | monsterize | Alternative forms |

Monsterize is a alternative form of monsterise.



As verbs the difference between monsterise and monsterize

is that monsterise is to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify while monsterize is to make something or another into a monster or the appearance of.

monsterise

English

Alternative forms

* monsterize

Verb

(monsteris)
  • To give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.
  • * 1851 , The British Friend , Volume 9, page 22
  • 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 , page 330
  • (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 , Outlook , Volume 45, Issues 9-16
  • 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.

    Hyponyms

    * vampirize, vampirise * zombify

    monsterize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * monsterise

    Verb

    (monsteriz)
  • To make something or another into a monster or the appearance of
  • * 2010 , various, Vampirella Archives , Volume 1, page 331
  • "IRON-ON" MONSTERS Itie newest way to "Monsterize " your shirts. T-shirts, sweat shirts, jeans, jackets, notebooks-any tiling
  • To give another very bad reputation, demonize, vilify
  • * 2003 , Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity , page 25
  • Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose
  • * 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.
  • * '2006'', Michael Finkel, ''True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
  • “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 .

    Hyponyms

    * vampirize, vampirise * zombify