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Zombify vs Monsterise - What's the difference?

zombify | monsterise | Hyponyms |

Monsterise is a hyponym of zombify.



As verbs the difference between zombify and monsterise

is that zombify is to turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead) while monsterise is to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.

zombify

English

Verb

  • (fictional) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
  • * 1994 , Arnold et al., A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions :
  • She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.
  • (computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.
  • These trojans can zombify your machine.

    Derived terms

    * de-zombify * zombification

    Hypernyms

    * monsterize

    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