Verb

(en verb)

To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.

* 1983 , Michael Slater, Dickens and Women , page 290,

A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.

* 2005 , Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are'', Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), ''Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity , page 82,

The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered , often unable to get work or housing.

* 2011 , Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears , page 234,

Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.

To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.

* 1968 , , Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays , page 145,

Animals in our world have been monstered' by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were ' monstered by the primal crime.

* 2009 , Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy , page 292,

In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering'.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “' monstering ” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.¹⁷⁷

* 2010 , Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture , page 39,

The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering , and the MPs complied.

(chiefly, Australia) To harass.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 31, author=Leo Schlink, title=Match looms as final for the ages, work=Herald Sun citation

, passage=Andy Roddick has been monstered by both Federer and Nadal and suffered a 6-2 7-5 7-5 semi-final loss at the hands of the Swiss champion. }}